Percelebres dic mysta modos (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)

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• (Posted 2023-03-02)  CPDL #72889:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2023-03-02).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 143 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a tone and completed with two editorial voice parts. Score with corrected sentence division on page 4 posted on 2 March 2023.

• (Posted 2022-12-31)  CPDL #72099:    Clemens_Percelebres_tone_up.mxl 

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2022-12-31).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 143 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a tone. Two editorial replacement parts are included.

General Information

Title: Percelebres dic mysta modos
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1556 in Sacrarum cantionum … quinque et sex vocum, liber 4 (Waelrant & Laet), no. 13
Description: Published by Waelrant & Laet, Antwerp, 1556 (only four of the six partbooks are extant)

Original text and translations

Latin text Percelebres dic mysta modos dic ordine certo  solvatur numeris lingua rotata suis. Postulat hoc pietas tum nostri gloria divi  ossaque sublimi sacra statuta loco. Sancte fidem Christi quondam caelumque professus  incultos animos pectora cuncta rapis. Sed tandem niveae perfuncto munere vitae  laurea delata est Bartholomaee tibi.

English translation by Dr Jamie Reid-Baxter Sing a most famous song, O priest, speak: let the dancing tongue be calmed by the due order of its [musical] measures. Piety demands this as much as do the glory of our saint and his sacred bones set in their lofty place. O saint, having of old professed the faith of Christ and aspired to heaven, you won over [for the faith] minds that lay fallow and all hearts, but at length, after your snow-white [blameless] life of service, the laurel crown [of victorious martyrdom] was conferred on you O Bartholomew.