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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-09). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original pitch and note values.

Title: Quam pulchri sunt III a 4
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Source of text: Song of Songs 7: vv.1, 4-6

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feast of the Immaculate Conception

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

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Original text and translations may be found at Quam pulchri sunt.

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 ==Original text and translations==
-{{Text|Latin}}
+{{LinkText|Quam pulchri sunt}}
-{{Verse|7:1}} Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui..., filia principis.
-{{Verse|7:4}} Collum tuum sicut turris eburnea; oculi tui ''divini''.
-{{Verse|7:5}} ...et comæ capitis tui sicut purpura regis.
-{{Verse|7:6}} Quam pulchra es, et quam decora carissima.
-{{Translation|English}}
-{{Verse|7:1}} How beautiful are thy steps, O prince's daughter.
-{{Verse|7:4}} Thy neck is as a tower of ivory, thy eyes divine.
-{{Verse|7:5}} and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king.
-{{Verse|7:6}} How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest.
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