Pater peccavi - Quanti mercenarii (Michael Praetorius)
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- Prima pars : Pater peccavi CPDL #19023:
- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2009-03-11). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 158 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: No bar lines.
- Secunda pars : Quanti mercenarii CPDL #19024:
- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2009-03-11). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 180 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)
Secunda pars
Latin text
Quanti mercenarii in domo patris mei abundant panibus,
ego autem hic fame pereo!
Surgam, et ibo ad patrem meum, et dicam ei:
Fac me sicut unum ex mercenariis tuis.
(from St Luke's Gospel, Chapter 15, verses 17-19)
English translation
How many hired servants in my father's house
abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger!
I will arise and will go to my father and say to him:
make me as one of thy hired servants.
(Douay-Rheims translation of the Vulgate)