Rex Virtutum (Felice Anerio)
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- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2022-10-24). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 133 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition: Scores for the Voices (both untransposed and transposed down by a fifth to accommodate performance with the cembalo or lute intavolations), the Gravicembalo intavolation and the lute intavoltion (given both in the original Italian and in French lute-tablature). The text underlay of the second verse is editorial.
General Information
Title: Rex Virtutum
Composer: Felice Anerio
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Sacred, Madrigal
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1586 in Diletto spirituale (Simone Verovio), no. 15
Description: The source gives parts for the voices, an intavolation for gravicembalo and an intavolation for lute (in Italian tablature). The voices are in Chiavetti (g, c1, c3). Though an all-female performance is possible any performance with the cembalo or lute asks for a transposition down by a fifth.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Rex Virtutum, Rex gloriæ.
Rex insignis victotiæ.
Jesu largitor veniæ.
Honor celestis curiæ.
Tu vere lumen patriæ,
Pelle nubem tristitiæ,
Tu fons misericordiæ,
Nobis dans lucem gloriæ.