O Regem caeli (Andreas de Silva)

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• (Posted 2021-08-14)  CPDL #65484:     

Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2021-08-14).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: sparse and sometimes ambiguous underlay, given as in 1532 print.

General Information

Title: O Regem caeli
Composer: Andreas de Silva
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Responsory

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1532 in Motteti del Fiore primus liber cum quatuor vocibus (Jacques Moderne), no. 1
Description: The model for Missa Regem caeli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) (1554). This text is variously assigned to days of the week after Christmas.

External websites:

• Motteti del Fiore primus liber cum quatro vocibus at Royal Holloway University

Original text and translations

Latin text

O Regem caeli cui talia famulantur obsequia
stabulo proponitur qui continet mundum:
iacet in praesepio et in caelis regnat.

Natus est nobis hodie salvator
qui est Christus dominus, in civitate David:
iacet in praesepio & in caelis regnat.

For a translation see first part of O Regem caeli - Natus est nobis (Tomás Luis de Victoria)