Sancte Johannes Baptista (Philippe de Monte)

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• (Posted 2021-12-01)  CPDL #66979:       

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2021-12-01).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 112 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1590 print. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values. Alto in octave transposed violin clef.

General Information

Title: Sancte Johannes Baptista
Composer: Philippe de Monte
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Corollarium cantionum sacrarum, no. 47
Description: Motet in honour of John the Baptist.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Sancte Johannes Baptista, electe Dei,
tu es Angelus qui venisti ante faciem Domini parare vias ejus,
tu ostendisti Agnum Dei, Dominum et Salvatorem nostrum,
qui tollit peccata mundi.