Christe Jesu, pastor bone (John Taverner)

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• (Posted 2006-10-01)  CPDL #12740:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: Dan Foster (submitted 2006-10-01).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 89 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved. Scored in clefs familiar to modern readers. Musica ficta matches our recently researched performances and recording.

General Information

Title: Christe Jesu, pastor bone
Composer: John Taverner

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Votive antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 51
Description: Related to Mass 'Small Devotion'. A conjectured original text may be found at O Willelme, pastor bone.

External websites:

• 1970 YouTube performance, with "Et Elizabetham…" replaced by the Henrican text "Fundatorum specialem…" (Guildford Cathedral Choir) - Barry Rose

Original text and translations

Latin text O Christe Jesu, pastor bone, Mediator et patrone, Mundi nobis in agone, Confer opem et depone Vitae sordes et coronae Celestis da gloriam. Et Elizabetham nostram Angliae reginae serva Et ecclesiam piorum Tueare custos horum, Et utrisque concedatur Eternae vitae premium.

English translation O Jesus Christ, good shepherd, Mediator and patron, To us in the trials of the world Grant help and remove Life’s baseness, and give us The joy of a heavenly crown. Save our Elizabeth, Queen of England, And watch over the Church O protector of these the devout; And allow both The reward of eternal life. (Adapted from the translation of a related text, that of Taverner's O Wilhelme pastor bone, given on the website MusicTeachers.co.uk)