Illumina nos (Carlo Gesualdo)
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CPDL #30571: LilyPond
- Editor: Peter Hilton (submitted 2013-11-16). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 140 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Reconstructed Sextus and Bassus parts copyright @2005 Joop Voorn
General Information
Title: Illumina nos
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 7vv Voicing: SSATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Sacræ Cantiones Liber Secundus, 1603
Description: Part of the Sacræ Cantiones Liber Secundus, whose sextus and basses part books were lost and are reconstructed/completed in modern editions, of which one of the most notable is Stravinsky's Tres sacrae cantiones (including Illumina nos).
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Illumina nos, misericordiarum Deus
Septiformini Paracliti gratia,
Ut per eam a delictorum tenebris liberati,
Vitae gloria perfruamur.