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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 295 1 North German: habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania so named. 2 Galician: nickname from ave ‘bird’ or Latin Ave Maria ‘Hail Mary’ (see 3 below). 3 French ( Avé ): nickname for a precentor, from Latin Ave Maria ‘Hail Mary’, the angelic salutation to the Virgin Mary used as a devotional recitation, with the addition (in more recent times) of a prayer to the Virgin, as Mother of God. 4 French ( Avé ): variant of Havet , from Old French havet ‘hook, pick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for...
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A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
... The name of Spanish high-speed trains, it means ‘bird’ in Spanish; however, it was originally an acronym of Alta Velocidad Española . Between Madrid and Seville the route is covered in less than three hours at speeds of up to 250 kph (155 mph). Eight coaches are carried, divided into three classes, first, club, and tourist. Whereas AVE trains run on the normal gauge lines, AVE Landazera – the newer regional high speed trains – can change gauge. Between Barcelona, Valencia, and Alacante, the broad-gauge service using AVE-type trains is known as...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... (Latin for ‘Hail!’) Ave atque vale Hail and farewell! The words of Catullus at his brother’s tomb. Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus Advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias, Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis Et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem. Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum, Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi, Nunc tamen interea haec prisco quae more parentum Tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias, Accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu, Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (By many lands and over many a wave I...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... Maria . Christian, mainly Catholic, salutation and invocation addressed to Mary...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... Maria . The Latin form of ‘Hail Mary’...
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
... maria In its initial Latin form, borrowing its words from the salutation of Elizabeth (Lk 1, 42) and that of the angel Gabriel (Lk 1, 28), this prayer of praise intended to exalt the motherhood of the Virgin Mary spread from the 10th c. and established itself in the devotion of the faithful at the end of the 11th century. In the 12th c., the Ave Maria was added with the Credo and the Pater to the number of official prayers. In the 13th and 14th cc., a great many councils prescribed its recitation. Completed by a prayer of petition at the end...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
...'rnus A deep volcanic crater, now a lake near Cumae and Naples. Close to it was the cave by which Aeneas descended to the Underworld (Virgil, Aeneid 6). The name was sometimes used for the Underworld itself. It was supposed to be derived from the Greek aōrnos , ‘without birds’, and the lake was in consequence thought to have no bird life. See Agrippa...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2 ed.)
... Maria The opening words of the Angelic Salutation spoken by the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation : ‘Ave [Maria], gratia plena, Dominus tecum’ (Hail, thou that art full of grace, the Lord is with thee, Vg. Luke 1; Hail, thou that art highly favoured, NRSV Luke 1: 28). The beginning of a prayer—the Hail Mary—addressed to the Virgin Mary is often found inscribed on representations of the Annunciation. Sometimes the words of Mary's reply ‘Ecce ancilla Domini’ (Behold the handmaid of the Lord) (NRSV has ‘Here am I, the servant of the Lord’, Luke 1: 38) are...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... Maria ( Hail Mary ) Prayer consisting partly of the biblical salutations of the Archangel Gabriel and Elizabeth to the Virgin Mary, and partly of matter added in the 15th cent. Many settings, that by Schubert being to a Ger. trans. of Walter Scott's poem from ‘The Lady of the Lake’ ( 1810 ). That known as by ‘Bach–Gounod’ is the first prelude from Bach 's Wohltemperierte Klavier with Gounod 's Méditation as counterpoint, the words having been added by someone...
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Alex Lingas
The Oxford Companion to Music
...Ave Maria (Lat., ‘Hail, Mary’). The salutation of the Virgin Mary by the Archangel Gabriel (Luke 1: 28) used liturgically by the Eastern and Western churches, usually together with that of Elizabeth (Luke 1: 42). In the Roman rite, a petition was added to the biblical texts in the 15th century to create a prayer that has often been set by composers, occasionally with textual variants. The Eastern Orthodox text sung at the dismissal of Vespers and set in Slavonic by Rakhmaninov and Stravinsky is shorter, introducing the two salutations with ‘Virgin Mother...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... maris stella ( Hail, Star of the Sea ) Hymn of RC...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... maris stella . A popular Marian hymn, dating at least from the 9th cent. One English translation begins ‘Hail Thou Star of...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... verum Corpus . A short anonymous Eucharistic hymn, probably dating from the 14th cent. One English translation begins ‘Hail true body, Born of the Virgin...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... verum corpus Short eucharistic hymn by an anonymous composer of the 14th century. It could be sung after the preface or during the consecration at *Mass , or during the ceremony of Benediction. Roger E....
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... maris stella Anonymous office hymn in honour of the Virgin Mary, probably composed in the Carolingian period. In the 12th century the melody inspired the *sequence ‘O Maria stella maris’ and the *troubadour song ‘Reis glorios’. The text was widely cited and commented upon. Susan Boynton AHMA 51 (1908), 140. M. Fassler , Gothic Song (1993), 324–6. H. Lausberg , Der Hymnus ‘Ave maris stella’ ...
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The Oxford Companion to Music
...Ave maris stella (‘Hail, star of the sea’). A hymn of the Roman Catholic Church, sung to several different melodies; these, but one in particular, were often used as the basis of Renaissance polyphonic settings of the text (including by Dufay ), for masses ( Josquin , Victoria , etc.), and for keyboard works (e.g. Cabezón,...
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Bruce Harbert
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...Hymnen des Thesaurus Hymnologicus H. A. Daniels und andere Hymnen-Ausgaben (AHMA 51, 1908), 140–2. H. Lausberg , Der Hymnus ‘Ave maris stella’ (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 61; Opladen, 1976), with refs. A. dal Zotto , ‘Ricerche sull’auctore del l’“Ave Maris Stella”’, Aevum 25 (1951), 494–503. S. de Ibero , OFM Cap. , J. Garcia Garcia , and E. R. Panyagua , CM , ‘Estudio del “Ave Maris Stella”’, Helmantica 8 (1957), 421–75. J. Szövérffy , Die Annalen der Lateinischen Hymnendichtung , 1 (1964), 219f.,...
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Alex Lingas
The Oxford Companion to Music
...Ave verum corpus (Lat., ‘Hail, true body’). A paraliturgical Latin hymn of late medieval origin, expressing devotion to the Host as the body of Christ. A popular affirmation of the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, it was often set to music after the Reformation, most famously by Byrd and Mozart . Alex...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... verum corpus ( Hail, true body ) Hymn (anonymous and of unknown date) possessing its own plainsong and also frequently set by composers ( Des Prez , Byrd , Mozart , Cherubini , S. Wesley , Gounod , Elgar , etc.), such motet settings being frequently sung in the Roman office of Benediction. Translations sometimes begin Jesu, Word of God Incarnate, Jesu, Blessed Word of God Incarnate , or Word of God Incarnate...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...Ave Verum Corpus Short anonymous eucharistic hymn, probably dating from the 14th cent., beginning ‘Ave verum corpus, natum Ex Maria Virgine’ (‘Hail true body, Born of the Virgin Mary’). It was sung, esp. in Italy, France, and Germany, after the Preface or during the consecration at Mass, and is still frequently chanted, e.g. at benediction (settings by W. A. Mozart, Byrd , and others). Crit. text in C. Blume , SJ, and H. M. Bannister (eds), Liturgische Prosen des Übergangsstiles und der zweiten Epoche insbesondere die dem Adam von Sanct Victor...
