Salvator Mundi I (Thomas Tallis)
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See also: Tallis's other setting of this text
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CPDL #16540:
- Editor: David Fraser (added 2008-04-07). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 114 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Original key, for ATTBB.
- CPDL #2529: Encore.
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2001-04-18). Score information: 140 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up a major second, for SAATB.
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General Information
Title: Salvator Mundi
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Text: Matins Antiphon, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: ATTBB, SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella.
Published: Cantiones sacrae (1575), no.1
Description:
External websites: Image of the bass part of this work in the transcription by Robert Dow (1553-88) at the library of Christ Church College, Oxford.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
- Salvator mundi, salva nos;
- qui per crucem et sanguinem redemisti nos,
- auxiliare nobis, te deprecamur, Deus noster.
English translation
Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt.
- Savior of the world, save us,
- who through thy cross and blood didst redeem us:
- help us, we beseech thee, our God.
