O Viri ô Galilæi (Giovanni Croce)

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  • CPDL #33050:    (MIDI) (XML)
Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2014-09-30).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 183 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The time signatures, the note's values, the accidentals and the colourings are as in the original print Promptuarium musicum, Pars Altera (Abraham Schadaeus). The MIDI and the MusicXML files are zipped.

General Information

Title: O Viri ô Galilæi
Composer: Giovanni Croce
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SSAB.SAAB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1605 in Motetti a otto voci, libro secondo, no. 2
    2nd published: 1612 in Promptuarium musicum, Pars Altera, no. 37
Description: 'In Festo Ascensionis Domini'.

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Original text and translations

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O Viri ô Galilæi
O amici chari Dei;
quid statis aspicientes?
In cælum admirantes?
Admiramur ascendentem
nubem Jesum attollentem.
Jam cesset admiratio.
cur? Nam Dei est actio.
O ascensio mirabilis!
O ascensio ineffabilis!
Heu Christe nos intuere,
benedicas miserere.
Fac nos tecum ascendere
culparum misso pondere,
ut cantemus alleluia.
Scandit Christus alleluia.
Ut cantemus alleluia.