Ecce merces sanctorum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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(Posted 2018-12-29) CPDL #52740:

• Original key (high chiavette):

• Transposed down a tone:

• Transposed down a fourth:

- Altos in octave transposed violin clef.

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-12-29). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 96 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1584 Gardano print. Original note values.

General Information

Title: Ecce merces sanctorum
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Motettorum liber quintus, 5vv, no. 13
Description: This is an expanded text of an Antiphon for the feast of Common of Martyrs

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Ecce merces sanctorum copiosa est apud Deum,
ipsi vero pro Christo mortui sunt,
et ideo coronas triumphales meruerunt,
et sic exsultantes in conspectu Dei
vivent in aeternum.