Sint lumbi vestri praecincti (John Redford)

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• (Posted 2022-07-17)  CPDL #70050:     

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-07-17).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 343 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the Tudor manuscript sources. Original note values retained. Transposed up a fourth to compensate for the low clefs. Missing Tenor part reconstructed editorially using the proper plainsong as a framework. Plainsong verse added from the printed Sarum antiphonal of 1520.

General Information

Title: Sint lumbi vestri praecincti
Composer: John Redford
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTBarB
Genre: Sacred, Responsory

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 99
Description: An ebullient, if rather dissonant, setting of the seventh respond at Matins on All Saints Day in the Use of Sarum.

Original text and translations

Latin text Sint lumbi vestri praecincti, et lucernae ardentes in manibus vestris; et vos similes hominibus exspectantibus dominum suum, quando revertatur a nuptiis. Vigilate ergo quia nescitis qua hora dominus vester venturus sit.

English text Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands; and you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding. (Luke 12:35-36, Douay-Rheims) Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. (Matt. 24:42, Douay-Rheims)