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: SacredMotet for the decapitation of John the Baptist

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

Latin.png 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.png 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.