Sanctorum meritis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• (Posted 2017-12-05)  CPDL #47899:     

Editor: Simon Biazeck (submitted 2017-12-05).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 264 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Sanctorum meritis
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Lyricist: attrib. to Rabanus Maurus ^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: 'Alternatim' setting of the hymn at First and Second Vespers in the Common of many Martyrs (communi Plurimorum Martyrum).

First publication: HYMNI TOTIUS ANNI, … quator vocibus concinendi, … Apud Iacobum Tornerium, & Bernardium Donangelum. Rome, 1589.

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Sanctorum meritis inclyta gaudia
Pangamus, socii, gestaque fortia:
Gliscens fert animus promere cantibus
Victorum genus optimum.

Hi sunt quos fatue mundus abhorruit:
Hunc fructu vacuum, floribus aridum,
Contempsere tui nominis asseclae,
Iesu Rex bone caelitum.

Hi pro te furias atque minas truces
Calcarunt hominum, saevaque verbera:
His cessit lacerans fortiter ungula,
Nec carpsit penetralia.

Caeduntur gladiis more bidentium:
Non murmur resonat, non querimonia:
Sed corde impavido mens bene conscia
Conservat patientiam.

Quae vox, quae poterit lingua retexere
Quae tu Martyribus munera praeparas?
Rubri nam fluido sanguine fulgidis
Ditantur bene laureis.

Te, summa Deitas unaque, poscimus,
Ut culpas abigas, noxia subtrahas:
Des pacem famulis ut tibi gloriam
Annorum in seriem canant.

Amen.

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