Absterge Domine (Thomas Tallis)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 577 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Original pitch, but allocated SATTB.
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-11-30). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 104 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: reformatting of #16566, with note values halved.
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-04-09). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 144 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Revised 22.04.08; thanks to Mick Swithinbank for pointing out truly gruesome error.
General Information
Title: Absterge Domine
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: ATTBarB, or SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1575 in Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur, no. 2
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Original text and translations
Latin text Absterge Domine delicta mea, quae inscienter juvenis feci, |
Italian translation Mondami, Signore, dai miei peccati, che ho commesso da insipiente giovane, |
English translation O Lord, wipe away my faults which I in ignorance committed in my youth, |