O lux et decus Hispaniae (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

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Editor: Sabine Cassola (added 2008-06-25).     Score information: A4, 3 pages, 90 kbytes       Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 90 KB, MIDI: 10 KB, Finale 2006: 30 KB.
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Editor: Nancho Alvarez (added 2004-10-19).   Score information: A4   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: listed alphabetically under 'Motetes'. full score and individual parts available as midi files, also available as Postscript file.

General Information

Title: O lux et decus Hispaniae
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Florilegium Sacrarum Cantionum - Petrius Phalesius - 1609.

Description: Number 35 of "Florilegium Sacrarum Cantionum"

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Original text and translations

Image:Latin.png Latin text

O lux et decus Hispaniae,
san tissime Jacobe, qui inter apostolos primatum tenes,
primus eorum martyrio laureatus.
Alleluia.


Image:English.png English translation

O light and grace of Spain,
most holy James, you who were the first among the apostles,
were the first of them to wear a martyr's crown.
Alleluia.

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