Sacerdotes Domini (William Byrd)

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Editor: David Fraser (added 2004-09-09).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 70 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Revised Feb 2006; please use in preference to my previous edition, which contained a serious error.
Editor: Brian Marble (added 2003-12-29).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 72 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2002-01-09).   Score information: 44 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: Christopher Braginetz (added 1999-10-06).   Score information: 164 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Sacerdotes Domini
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), vol. 2, no. 3

Description: Offertory for Corpus Christi & Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament

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Original text and translations

Image:Latin.png Latin text

Sacerdos Domini incensum et panes offerunt Deo: et ideo sancti erunt Deo suo et non polluent nomen eius. Alleluia.

Image:English.png English translation
from Christopher Braginetz score

Then did priests make offering of incense and loaves of finest wheat to God and therefore shall they be holy to their Lord and shall not defile his most holy name. Aleluia.
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