Dum transisset Sabbatum I (John Taverner)

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Five voices (SATBB)

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(Posted 2022-08-20) CPDL #70488:

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-08-20). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 327 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the Tudor manuscript sources. Original pitch retained. Note values halved.

(Posted 2022-03-28) CPDL #68579:

Editor: Carlos Rodríguez Otero (submitted 2022-03-28). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 460 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Critical edition from manuscript sources. Text, translation, notes and commentary provided. Original pitch and note values retained.

(Posted 2014-05-26) CPDL #32098:

Editor: Adrian Wall (submitted 2014-05-26). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 327 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Original key. Chant from [1].

(Posted 2003-03-25) CPDL #04680:

Editor: Rupert Preston Bell (submitted 2003-03-25). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 227 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Possibly some errors in the plainsong.

Four voices (TTBB)

(Posted 2021-12-26) CPDL #67237:

Editor: Carlos Rodríguez Otero (submitted 2021-12-26). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 367 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Critical edition from the manuscript source. Text, translation, notes and commentary provided. Original pitch and note values retained.

(Posted 2014-05-06) CPDL #31842:

Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2014-05-06). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 168 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This four-part version (made in the sixteenth century, though of unknown authorship) reduces the top three voices of the original to two. This edition is notated in the original key, with halved note values. Editorial slurs and accidentals are added.

General Information

Title: Dum Transisset Sabbatum
Composer: John Taverner
Text: from Mark 16:1-2 Source of text: Third response at Mattins on Easter Sunday

Number of voices: 4-5vv Voicings: SATBB or TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Responsory

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Manuscript c. 1575 in British Library, Add. MS 17802-5 (Gyffard Partbooks) (four-part version), no. 61
Manuscript c. 1575 in Christ Church, Oxford, Mus. 979-982 (Baldwin Partbooks), no. 22
Manuscript 1580 in 'Christ Church, Oxford, Mus. 984-989 (Dow Partbooks), no. 26
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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Dum transisset Sabbatum.