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Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2004-11-10). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 110 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised August 08

Title: O gloriosa Domina
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATT

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), vol.3, no.2

Description: Hymn at Lauds in the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Original text and translations may be found at O gloriosa Domina.

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 ==Original text and translations==
-{{Text|Latin}}
+{{LinkText|O gloriosa Domina}}
-:O gloriosa Domina
-:excelsa super sidera,
-:qui te creavit provide,
-:lactasti sacro ubere.
-:Quod Eva tristis abstulit,
-:tu reddis almo germine;
-:intrent ut astra flebiles,
-:Caeli fenestra facta es.
-:Tu regis alti janua
-:et porta lucis fulgida;
-:vitam datam per Virginem,
-:gentes redemptae, plaudite.
-:Gloria tibi, Domine,
-:qui natus es de Virgine,
-:cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu
-:in sempiterna secula. Amen.
-{{Translation|English}}
-:O Heaven's glorious mistress,
-:elevated above the stars,
-:thou feedest with thy sacred breast
-:him who created thee.
-:What miserable Eve lost
-:thy dear offspring to man restors,
-:the way to glory is open to the wretched
-:for thou has become the Gate of Heaven.
-:Thou art the door of the High King,
-:the gate of shining light.
-:Life is given through a Virgin:
-:Rejoice, ye redeemed nations.
-:Glory be to Thee, O Lord,
-:Born of a Virgin,
-:with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
-:world without end. Amen.
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