Super flumina Babylonis (Jean de La Fage)
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- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2022-03-17). Score information: A4, 24 pages, 206 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up a tone.
General Information
Title: Super flumina Babylonis
Composer: Jean de La Fage
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1532 in Secundus liber cum quinque vocibus (Jacques Moderne), no. 6
2nd published: 1534 in Motettorum, Book 3 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 9
3rd published: 1539 in Psalmorum selectorum (Johannes Petreius), Tomus 2, no. 37
Description: Sources: Attaignant's 3rd book of motets, 1534 and Jacques Moderne's edition of 1532. A setting of the whole psalm, and an unusually cheerful one.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 137.