Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi (Josquin Des Prez)

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• CPDL #5864: Finale-2003.
  

Editor: Kevin Skelton (added 2003-10-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 200 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #3374: MusiXTex.
  

Editor: Moriwaki Michio (added 2002-03-17).   Score information: kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi
Composer: Josquin Des Prez

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

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Gaude, virgo mater Christi,

Quae per aurem concepisti,

Gabriele nuntio.

Gaude, quia Deo plena

Peperisti sine poena,

Cum pudoris lilio.

Gaude, quia tui nati

Quem dolebas mortem pati,

Fulget resurrectio.

Gaude Christo ascendente,

Et in coelum te vidente,

Motu fertur proprio.

Gaude que post ipsum scandis,

Et est honor tibi grandis,

In caeli palatio.

Ubi fructus ventris tui,

Nobis detur per te frui,

In perenni gaudio.

Alleluia.

English translation

Rejoice, virgin mother of Christ

who hast conceived by ear,

with Gabriel as messenger.

Rejoice, for full of God

thou gavest birth without pain,

with the lily of purity.

Rejoice, for the resurrection

of thy Son now shines,

whose death thou mourned,

Rejoice, as Christ ascends,

and, in thy sight, is carried

into heaven by his own strength.

Rejoice, thou who riseth after him

and to whom great honor is due

in the palace of heaven,

Where the fruit of thy womb

is granted us, through thee, to enjoy

in eternal rejoicing.

Alleluia.

Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt.