O gloriosa domina (Jacques Arcadelt)
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- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-08-05). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 88 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth.
General Information
Title: O gloriosa domina
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1538 in Triginta novem motetos habet (Buglhat, de Campis and Hucher), no. 9
2nd published: 1555 in Moteti de la fama (Jean L'Héritier), no. 22, p. 26
Description: Source: Scotto, Motetti de la fama, 1555
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Original text and translations
Latin text
O gloriosa domina, excelsa supra sidera,
qui te creavit provide lactasti sacro ubere.
Quod Eva tristis abstulit tu reddis almo germine;
intrent ut astra flebiles, caeli fenestra facta es.
Tu regis alti ianua, alti porta lucis fulgida;
vitam datam per virginem gentes redemptae plaudite.
Gloria tibi Domine qui natus es de virgine
cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu in sempiterna saecula.