Audite caeli (Ottavio Catalani)

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• (Posted 2020-07-05)  CPDL #59538:         

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2020-07-05).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition.

General Information

Title: Audite cœli
Composer: Ottavio Catalani
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: ST
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1616 in Selectae cantiones, no. 8
Description: A Concertato Motet for Soprano and Tenor. The lyrics are from the beginning of the Canticum magnum Moysis, Deuteronomium 32:1-3a.

Original text and translations

Versio Vulgata: Deuteronomium 32:1-3a. Latin text Audite, caeli, quae loquor: audiat terra verba oris mei. 2 Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillae super gramina. 3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo:

Douay-Rheims Bible: English translation Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. 2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass. 3 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: