Miserere pie Jesu (Nicolas Gombert)
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- Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2013-11-02). Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 711 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: From Cantiones sacrae (1539). Our source: N. Gombert: Opera omnia, ed. Joseph Schmidt-Görg, AIM/CMM, 1964. Notation here is a fourth higher than the original with time values halved. Translation, text underlay and musica ficta by John Hetland and The Renaissance Street Singers. 12 Aug 2008.
General Information
Title: Miserere pie Jesu
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1539 in Musica quatuor vocum liber primus (Nicolas Gombert), Edition 1, no. 2
2nd published: 1541 in Musica quatuor vocum liber primus (Nicolas Gombert), Edition 2, no. 2
3rd published: 1551 in Musica quatuor vocum liber primus (Nicolas Gombert), Edition 3, no. 2
Description: A prayer for the dead whom no one remembers.
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Original text and translations
Latin text Miserere pie Jesu |
English translation Have mercy, holy Jesus, |