Salvator mundi I (Thomas Tallis)

See also: Tallis's other setting of this text

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• (Posted 2022-04-18)  CPDL #68889: 

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2022-04-18).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Note values halved. Modern clefs.

• (Posted 2021-11-05)  CPDL #66554:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2021-11-05).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2020-05-27)  CPDL #58856:       

Editor: James Wetzel (submitted 2020-05-27).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2016-06-12)  CPDL #39992:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-06-12).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2015-11-10)  CPDL #37480:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2015-11-10).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: A bar-less edition for mixed voices in B flat minor.

• (Posted 2015-06-05)  CPDL #35659:     

Editor: Michael Aves (submitted 2015-06-05).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: PDF file for Tallis' Salvator mundi I. SATB score in modern notation, up a tone, note values halved.

• (Posted 2013-01-28)  CPDL #28161:         

Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2013-01-28).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Mensural notation, original note values and key signature, clefs modernized, musica ficta clearly marked.

• (Posted 2008-04-07)  CPDL #16540:     

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-04-07).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 101 kB    Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key, for ATTBB. Revised Jan 09

• (Posted 2001-04-18)  CPDL #02529:         

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2001-04-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 133 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a major second, for SAATB.

General Information

Title: Salvator mundi
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Text: Matins Antiphon, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTBarB, SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1575 in Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur, no. 1
    Manuscript 1580 in Dow Partbooks, no. 20
    Manuscript c. 1625-1640 in the Peterhouse Partbooks: Latter Caroline Set (John Cosin)
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External websites:

• 1970 YouTube performance (Guildford Cathedral Choir) - Barry Rose
• Image of the bass part of this work in the transcription by Robert Dow (1553-88) at the library of Christ Church, Oxford.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Salvator mundi, salva nos.