Attollite portas (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #4113:

Editor: David Fraser (added 2002-10-21).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 170 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised February 2008

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Title: Attollite portas
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 6vv  Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
. Published: Cantiones Sacrae (1575), no.11

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Original text and translations

Psalm 24: 7-10

English translation from the score; see psalm page for alternative translations

Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.

Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of power, he is the King of Glory.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen