Bone pastor (Thomas Tallis)

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Editor: Matthew Collett (submitted 2008-04-11).   Score information: A5, 3 pages, 241 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Bone pastor
Composer: Thomas Tallis

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

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Reuses the music from Tallis's anthem If ye love me.

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Original text and translations

The first half of the last verse of Lauda Sion by St Thomas Aquinas.

Latin text

Bone pastor, panis vere,
Jesu, nostri miserere:
Tu nos pasce, nos tuere:
Tu nos bona fac videre,
in terra viventium.

English translation

Good shepherd, true bread,
Jesus, have mercy on us:
Feed and protect us:
Make us see good things
in the land of the living.

Italian translation

Buon pastore, pane vero,
o Gesù, abbi pietà di noi,
nutrici, difendici,
facci vedere i beni
nella terra dei viventi.