(Lat.: ‘Come Holy Spirit’).
The sequence for Pentecost (LU, 880); it was one of the four sequences retained by the Council of Trent (1545–63). The text has been ascribed to Pope Innocent III (d 1216) and Stephen Langton (d 1228); its ten stanzas are set as five double versicles. There are settings by Du Fay, Josquin, Willaert (two), Palestrina (two), Lassus and Victoria, among others (see Sequence (i), §11). The text, though not the melody, was incorporated by Dunstaple into his famous motet Veni Sancte Spiritus et emitte/Veni Sancte Spiritus et infunde/Veni Creator/Mentes tuorum. Here the top part sets the sequence text, while the second voice sings an otherwise unrecorded paraphrase of it. The borrowed melodic material of this motet, however, is drawn exclusively from the Office hymn Veni Creator Spiritus. Another combination of these two texts, this time using both melodies, is Heinrich Finck's Veni Creator (HAM, no.80).
JOHN CALDWELL