''Alle Psallite Cum Luya'' is an anonymous three-part

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...

from the late 13th or early 14th century. It is recorded in the

Montpellier Codex The ''Montpellier Codex'' (''Montpellier, Bibliothèque Inter-Universitaire, Section Médecine, H196'') is an important source of 13th-century French polyphony. The ''Codex'' contains 336 polyphonic works probably composed c. 1250–1300, and wa ...

and is thought to have originated in France. The text is based on the word ''

Alleluia Alleluia (derived from the Hebrew ''Hallelujah'', meaning "Praise Yahweh") is a Latin phrase in Christianity used to give praise to God. In Christian worship, Alleluia is used as a liturgical chant in which that word is combined with verses of ...

'', which is repeated throughout in the tenor voice while the duplum and triplum voices sing lines with successively longer tropes inserted between ''alle'' and ''luya'', as follows: Alle psallite cum luya Alle concrepando psallite cum luya Alle corde voto Deo toto, psallite cum luya Alleluya The troped text consists of a series of enthusiastic affirmations, giving the piece a celebratory tone.

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Sheet music for Alle Psallite cum LuyaAlle psallite cum luya performed live at ''A Mediæval Celebration'' at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2011
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