Dixit Dominus Deus (Matthieu Le Maistre)
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- (Posted 2024-08-23) CPDL #81709:
- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2024-08-23). Score information: A4, 20 pages, 195 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up a tone.
General Information
Title: Dixit Dominus Deus
Composer: Matthieu Le Maistre
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1564 in Thesaurus Musicus (1564), Volume 1, no. 43
Description: Published by Berg & Neuber, Nuremberg, 1564. A rare setting of the passage from Genesis in which God creates Eve from Adam's rib. An exuberantly joyful work.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Dixit Dominus Deus:
Non est bonum hominem esse solum.
Cumque obdormivisset Adam tulit unam
de costis eius et aedificavit Dominus Deus costam in mulierem
et adduxit eam ad Adam.
Dixitque Adam:
Hoc nunc os ex ossibus meis
et caro de carne mea haec vocabitur
virago quoniam de viro sumpta est.
Quam ob rem relinquet homo patrem et matrem
et adhaerebit uxori suae et erunt duo in carne una.