Alleluia Per te Dei genitrix (Christopher Tye)

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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2014-02-26). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 127 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth; note values halved. Editorial accidentals and slurs added.

Title: Alleluia Per te Dei genitrix
Composer: Christopher Tye

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Alleluia verse

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Description: A polyphonic setting of the Alleluia for certain Marian Masses, along with the chant verse.

Latin text

Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix, nobis est vita perdita data:
quae de caelo suscepisti prolem et mundo genuisti salvatorem.

English translation

Alleluia. Lost life was given to us through you, mother of God:
who did receive a child from heaven and bear a Savior for the world.