Descendit de caelis (Jean Guyot)

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• (Posted 2025-10-03)  CPDL #86985:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-10-03).   Score information: A4, 18 pages, 178 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a tone.

General Information

Title: Descendit de caelis
Composer: Jean Guyot
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1568 in Novi thesauri musici (Pietro Giovannelli), Liber 1, no. 12
Description: Published by Gardano, 1568

Original text and translations

Latin text

Descendit de caelis missus ab arce patris introivit
per aurem virginis in regionem nostram,
alleluia,
indutus stolam purpuream et exivit per auream portam
lux et decus universae fabricae mundi,
alleluia.

Tanquam sponsus Dominus procedens de thalamo suo,
alleluia,
exultavit ut gigas ad currendam viam, alleluia,
lux et decus universae fabricae mundi,
alleluia.