Salve crux sancta, arbor digna (Adrian Willaert)

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• (Posted 2019-03-19)  CPDL #53637:         

Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2019-03-19).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 402 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Salve crux sancta, arbor digna
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1534 in Motettorum, Book 1 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 24
    3rd published: 1539 in Motetti libro secondo a quattro voci, Edition 1, no. 17
    4th published: 1545 in Musica quatuor vocum quae vulgo motecta nuncupatur liber primus, Edition 2, no. 17
    5th published: 1555 in Evangelia dominicorum et festorum dierum tomus quartus (Berg & Neuber), no. 18
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Prima Pars
Salve crux sancta, arbor digna
cujus robur pretiosum
mundi refert talentum,
ut hostis per lignum victor
ligno revinceretur
quoque exortus mortis
primis erat terrigenis
paradiso propulsis.

Secunda Pars
Causa etiam vitae foret cunctis
Christi morte vere vivificatis ,
horrificum tu es semper signum
inimicis crux Sarracenis,
quam mors pavet infernusque tumet,
quae christot suos reconsignat
cui laus sit in aevum.