Caeciliam cantate pii (Nicolas Gombert)

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• (Posted 2020-05-17)  CPDL #58676:       

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2020-05-17).   Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 1.8 MB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Nicoli Gombert: Opera omnia, VIII, ed. Joseph Shmidt-Görg, A.I.M., 1970. Notation here is a tone higher than the original with note values halved. Translation (with major help, including text correction, from Quintus), text underlay, editorial accidentals, alterations and emendations (see last page) by John Hetland and the Renaissance Street Singers. 10 May 2020

General Information

Title: Caeciliam cantate pii
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1541 in Motectorum quinque vocum liber secundus, Edition 1, no. 4
    2nd published: 1545 in Cantiones septem, sex et quinque vocum (Sigmund Salminger), no. 12
Description: Praise for St. Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. The text has also been set by Luca Marenzio.

Original text and translations

Latin text Caecíliam cantáte píi,  cantáte pudíci. Cármina cum módulis  carminibúsque fáveant. Organa Caeciliam résonent,  stridulaéque cámenae Suávia deléctant  órgana Caeciliam, Argútaque júvant  dúlcis modulámina vócis. Concórdes ígitur  vóce laéta módos, Perstrépet hic lítuus  cítharae, calámus, decachórdum, Cumque foramínibus,  tíbia, pléctra, líra, Týmpana cum córdis,  óris quóque córnua fléxi, Cýmbala, testúdo,  bárbita ráuca mélis, Ars hóminum quídquid vel réperit,  ílla sonórum. Laudáre vólumus,  plángere Caecíliam. Música Caecíliam  sápiens quis néscit amáre, Cum cécinit spónso  cármina spónsa súo?

English translation Sing of Cecilia, devout folk,  sing, modest folk. May songs with melodies  and songs favor her. Let organs resound to Cecilia,  and the loud-voiced Muses' Sweet organs  delight Cecilia, And the harmonious melodies  of their voices please her. Therefore, with happy  voice in harmonious notes, let the trumpet here resound,  citharas, pipe, harp, and with its holes,  the flute, lutes, lyre, drums accompanied by strings,  and horns with curved tube, cymbals, tortoise shell,  lutes with rasping strains, whatever mankind's art has found,  that tuneful thing. We wish to praise,  to lament Cecilia. What wise man knows not how  to love Cecilia with music, When she sang to her husband  hymns she had promised him?