Pater peccavi / Quanti mercenarii (Thomas Crecquillon)
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CPDL #19680:
- Editor: Art Levine (submitted 2009-06-25). Score information: Letter, 51 pages, 1.32 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: In score and partbook formats, in original time values. The parts have no barlines. Full score is the first 35 pages, parts follow.
General Information
Title: Pater peccavi / Quanti mercenarii
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: Motet in two parts:
- Prima pars: Pater peccavi in caelum
- Secunda pars: Quanti mercenarii
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Pater peccavi in caelum, et coram te: jam non sum dignus vocari filius tuus: fac me sicut unum ex mercenariis tuis.
Quanti mercenarii in domo patris mei abundant panibus, ego autem hic fame pereo! Surgam, et ibo ad patrem meum,
et dicam ei: fac me sicut unum ex mercenariis tuis.
English translation
Father, I have sinned before heaven and in thy sight! I am unworthy to be called thy son. Let me be as one of thy servants!
So many servants have bread in abundance at my father's house, and I perish here from hunger! I shall go to my father
and say: let me be as one of thy servants!