Innuebant patri eius (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)

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• (Posted 2023-03-05)  CPDL #72930:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2023-03-05).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third.

General Information

Title: Innuebant patri eius
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1556 in Sacrarum cantionum … quinque et sex vocum, liber 4 (Waelrant & de Laet), no. 5
    2nd published: 1559 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Berg and Neuber), Volume 2, no. 51
Description: Published by Berg & Neuber, Nuremberg, 1559. Narrative of the naming of John the Baptist and his father's recovery of the power of speech, as related in the first chapter of St Luke's Gospel.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Innuebant patri eius quem vellet vocari eum,
et postulans pugillarem scripsit dicens:
Johannes est nomen eius.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Apertum est os Zachariae et prophetavit dicens:
Johannes est nomen eius.
Alleluia, alleluia.