O Oriens (Carlo Gesualdo)
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- CPDL #30561:
- 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 Maarten Michielsen & Cappella Gabrieli in Berlin in 2005.
General Information
Title: O Oriens
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon for the Magnificat at Vespers in Advent.
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
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O Dayspring, splendour of light eternal [and sun of righteousness:] Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death. |
Latin text
O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, [et sol justitiae:]