Cum ortus fuerit (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• (Posted 2025-05-11)  CPDL #84848:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-05-11).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

• (Posted 2018-11-29)  CPDL #52460:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-11-29).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1575 print. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values. The Sextus and Altus are in tenor clef. The Sextus is notated in mezzosoprano clef (because it is a fifth above the Quintus, notated in Tenor clef), but it has an Alto range.

General Information

Title: Cum ortus fuerit
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1575 in Motettorum liber tertius, 5-8vv, no. 20
Description: Antiphon for Second Vespers on Christmas Vigil. The Sextus and the Quintus sing in canon the plainchant melody in long note values.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Cum ortus fuerit sol de coelo, videbitis Regem regum,
procedentem a Patre tamquam sponsus de thalamo suo.