Pater peccavi - Quanti mercenarii (Michael Praetorius)

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• CPDL #19023: 

Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2009-03-11).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 158 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: No bar lines.

General Information

Title: Pater peccavi (prima pars)
Composer: Michael Praetorius

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1607

Description: Musarum Sioniarum N. 6 - secunda pars: Quanti mercenarii

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Pater peccavi in coelum et coram te:
non sum dignus vocari filius tuus.
Fac me sicut unum ex mercenariis tuis.

(from St Luke's Gospel, Chapter 15, verses 18/19 or 21)

English translation

Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.
I am not worthy to be called thy son:
make me as one of thy hired servants.
(Douay-Rheims translation of the Vulgate)