Oportet te fili gaudere (John Reager)

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• (Posted 2024-02-08)  CPDL #79046:   

Editor: John Reager (submitted 2024-02-08).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 251 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Oportet te fili gaudere
Composer: John Reager
Lyricist: Bible: Luke 15: 32^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2024
Description: This piece is part of a Lenten Motet series that will contain settings of all the communion propers in Lent. The keyboard reduction may be used for rehearsal or performance as desired.

Original text and translations

Latin text Oportet te, fili, gaudere, quia frater tuus mortuus fuerat, et revixit: perierat, et inventus est.

English translation My son, you should rejoice; for your brother who was dead has come back to life; he was lost and he has been found.