Beatus Stephanus (Adrian Willaert)

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• (Posted 2019-03-12)  CPDL #53529:         

Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2019-03-12).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 480 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Beatus Stephanus
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for St. Stephen (Dec. 26)

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1534 in Motettorum, Book 1 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 9
    2nd published: 1539 in Motetti libro secondo a quattro voci, Edition 1, no. 9
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Prima Pars
Beatus Stephanus pretiosus
et levita, plenus gratia et fortitudine
intuens in caelum vidit gloriam Dei et ait:
ecce video caelos apertos,
et Jesum Filium hominis stantem a dextris virtutis Dei.

Secunda Pars
Et videntes vultum ejus tamquam vultum
angeli stantis inter illos,
impetum fecerunt unanimiter in eum
ejicientes extra civitatem
et lapidabant beatum Stephanus invocantem et dicentem:
Domine Jesu Christe accipe spiritum meum,
Et haec dicens obdormivit in Domino.