Attollite portas (William Byrd)
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General Information
Title: Attollite portas
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella.
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
