Misso Herodes (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• CPDL #26717:  Capella

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, Motet, Magnificat antiphon for the decapitation of John the Baptist

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1563, Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum … liber primus, 4vv, Rome

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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.