Sol occasum nesciens (Heinrich Isaac)

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Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-11-16). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 41 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: At original pitch for SAT

CPDL #24951:  [ ]

Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-11-16). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 41 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a perfect fourth from original pitch for ATB

Title: Sol occasum nesciens
Composer: Heinrich Isaac

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
or ATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Trium vocum cantiones centum... (Petreius, Nuremberg 1541)

Description: This is a different piece from the 'complete' (that is, alternatim) 4-part setting in Choralis Constantinus II

External websites: The full text (and chant) of the sequence for Circumcision, of which this is the fourth verse, may be found here

Latin text

Sol occasum nesciens,
stella semper rutilans,
semper clara.

English translation by Edward Tambling

A sun which knows no setting,
a star that always shines,
always clear.