Cantabant Domino in celo (Orazio Vecchi)
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- Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2020-11-02). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 99 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Cantabant Domino in celo
Composer: Orazio Vecchi
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Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1610 in Fatiche Spirituali, Book 1, no. 5
Description: This is a contrafact of Vecchi's Saltavan ninfe, satiri e pastori by Simone Molinaro.
Molinaro did not simply fit a sacred text to the music, but transposed it down a fifth, altered the octave for two voices, interchanged some sections between voices, and made some minor adjustments. But thus he simplified the structure, because in repetitions he used the same music for the same voices, whereas Vecchi used different voices.
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Original text and translations
Latin text Cantabant Domino in celo sancti |
German translation Es sangen dem Herrn im Himmel die Heiligen, Die letzte Zeile ist spekulativ, denn "salvasti" ist eine italienische Form und offenbar nicht lateinisch. "eternum vive" müsste eigentlich "er lebe ewiglich" bedeuten, was aber in Bezug auf Gott auch unangebracht erscheint.
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