Euge Caeli Porta (Thomas Tallis)
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= HELP- CPDL #6604: Finale 2007 Transposed version with tenor/bass switched:
- Editor: Paul R. Marchesano (submitted 2004-01-30). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 124 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Translation corrected on score Dec 2008. Second PDF edition transposed down whole step with tenor/bass parts interchanged and tenor lowered one octave overall.
General Information
Title: Euge Caeli Porta
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: This is an intriguing score, containing so many odd inversions, especially second inversions. I can't help feeling that it might sound better if the bass part were pitched an octave higher, so that it was mostly above the tenor, serving as another alto part. It would be interesting to compare the score with another source or with an authoritative recording, but I don't have one.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Euge caeli porta quae nunc aperta veritatis lumen, ipsum solem justitiae, indutum carne ducis in orbem.
English translation
supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt
Well done, O gate of heaven, who now opened, leads into the world the Light of Truth, the very Sun of Justice, clothed in flesh.
