Tu Deus noster (Johannes Lupi)

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(Posted 2020-05-30) CPDL #58927:

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2020-05-30). Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 1.19 MB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Johannis Lupi: Opera omnia, ed. Bonnie J. Blackburn, CMM 84 I, 1980. Notation here is a tone higher than the original, with note values halved. Translation text underlay and editorial accidentals by John Hetland and the Renaissance Street Singers. 23 May 2020

General Information

Title: Tu Deus noster
Composer: Johannes Lupi
Lyricist:

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

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1542 in Musicae cantiones liber tertius, no. 9, p. 11
2nd published: 1545 in Cantiones septem, sex et quinque vocum (Sigmund Salminger), no. 25
3rd published: 1546 in Sacrarum cantionum, liber 2 (Tielman Susato), no. 16
4th published: 1556 in Evangelia dominicorum et festorum dierum tomus quintus (Berg & Neuber), no. 26
Description: Sapientia (Wisdom) 15:1-3

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Tu, Déus nóster, suávis et vérus es,
Et in misericórdia dispónens ómnia.
Etenim si peccavérimus, túi súmUs,
Sciéntes magnitúdinem túam,
Et si non peccavérimus,
Scímus quóniam ápud te
súmus computáti.

Nósse énim te,
consummáta justítia est;
Et scíre justítiam
et virtútem túam,
rádix est immortalitátis.

English translation

You, our God, are gracious and true,
and in mercy arranging all things.
For if we sin, we are yours,
knowing your greatness,
and if we do not sin,
we know that we are
counted with you.

For to begin to know you
is complete justice;
and to know justice
and your power
is the root of immortality.