Inclina aurem tuam (Heinrich Isaac)

Music files

Editor: Aristotle Aure Esguerra (submitted 2018-07-08). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 180 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transcribed from DTO; raised M2; clefs modernized; note values halved; range indicators added; modifications to text underlay.

Editor: Brian Marble (submitted 2015-08-26). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: m3 higher. Text adjustment to better match chant and for breaths.

Title: Inclina aurem tuam
Composer: Heinrich Isaac

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Communion for 7th Sunday after Pentecost

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1550 in Choralis Constantinus, Volume 1
Description:

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 31, v. 3 .

Latin text

Inclina aurem tuam,
accelera ut eruas me.

English translation

Bow down thine ear,
make haste to deliver me.
Translation by St Ann choir