Viri sancti gloriosum a 6 (Giovanni Bassano)

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  • CPDL #27133:      (Sibelius 6)
Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2012-09-08).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Edited from facsimile of original Vincenti print. Third line fleetingly down to low E.

General Information

Title: Viri sancti gloriosum a 6
Composer: Giovanni Bassano

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicings: SATTBB, ATTTBB or SAATTB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1599

Description: No. 5 from "Concerti Ecclesiastici, Libro Secondo."

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Viri sancti gloriosum sanguinem fuderunt pro Domino
imitati sunt eum in morte sua
amaverunt Christum in vita sua
et ideo coronans triumphales meruerunt.
 

English.png English translation

These were holy men who gloriously shed their blood for the Lord.
They copied Him in their deaths
And loved Him in their lives.
And so, they have merited triumphal crowns.