Gyrum caeli circuivi (Eustache Barbion)

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• (Posted 2025-01-29)  CPDL #83611:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-01-29).   Score information: A4, 15 pages, 134 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third and completed.

General Information

Title: Gyrum caeli circuivi
Composer: Eustache Barbion
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSTTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1557 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum, liber 12 (Antwerp: Susato), no. 9
Description: Published by Susato, Antwerp, 1557

Original text and translations

Latin text

Gyrum caeli circuivi sola
et in fluctibus maris ambulavi
et in omni gente
et in omni populo primatum tenui.

Super bonum et sublimium cola
propria virtute calcavi.
Ego in altissimis habito
et thronus meus in columna nubis.