Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli (William Byrd)

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Editor: Matthew Collett (added 2008-04-14).   Score information: A5, 4 pages, 311 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: A performing edition of the Prima pars only. Transposed up one tone for SATB, with note values halved.
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Editor: David Fraser (added 2003-10-14).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 132 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Revised February 2008

General Information

Title: Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella.
Published: Gradualia II (1607), no.16

Description: Alleluia, Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament. The music from the verse Caro mea to the end is reprinted exactly from the gradual Oculi Omnium (Gradualia I, 2/2), a unique example of a transfer from the earlier publication.

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Original text and translations

Image:Latin.png Latin text

Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli Dominum Jesum in fractione panis.
Alleluia. Caro mea vere est cibus, et sanguis meus vere est potus: qui manducat carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet, et ego in eo. Alleluia.

Image:English.png English translation
from the score

Alleluia. The disciples knew the Lord Jesus in the breaking of bread.
Alleluia. My flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him. Alleluia.
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