O Oriens (Carlo Gesualdo)

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CPDL #30561:    LilyPond 

Editor: Peter Hilton (submitted 2013-11-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 113 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Reconstructed Sextus and Bassus parts copyright @2005 Joop Voorn, first performed by Cappella Gabrieli in Berlin in 2005.

General Information

Title: O Oriens
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Part of the Sacræ Cantiones Liber Secundus, whose sextus and basses part books were lost and are reconstructed/completed in modern editions.

External websites: http://cappellagabrieli.nl/concert-2005-12.html

Original text and translations

Latin text

O Oriens,
splendor lucis æternæ,
veni, et illumina
sedentes in tenebris,
et umbra mortis.