Misso Herodes (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-08). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original key and note values.
General Information
Title: Misso Herodes
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Magnificat antiphon for the decapitation of John the Baptist
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1564 in Motecta festorum totius anni liber primus, 4vv, no. 20
2nd published: 1854 in Musica Divina Vol. II (Carl Proske), p. 114
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Misso Herodes spiculatore praecepit amputari caput Joannis Baptistae in carcere: quo audito, discipuli eius venerunt, et tulerunt corpus eius, et posuerunt illud in monumento.
English translation
Herod sent an executioner to cut off the head of John the Baptist in prison: On hearing this, his disciples came, and took his body, and put it in a tomb.