Rex pacificus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• CPDL #27628:  LilyPond

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2012-11-18).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Pierluigi da Palestrina's Werke. Dritter Band. Breitkopf und Härtel. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values. Alto parts are in tenor clef.

General Information

Title: Rex pacificus
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1575, Motettorum liber tertius, 5, 6, 8vv, Venice

Description: Antiphon for the first psalm at First Vespers of Christmas

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Rex pacificus magnificatus est, cujus vultum desiderat universa terra.

English translation by Edward Tambling

The King of peace is magnified, whose face the whole earth desires.