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<poem>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.</poem> | |||
(from St Luke's Gospel, Chapter 15, verses 17-19)<br> | |||
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<poem>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.</poem> | |||
(Douay-Rheims translation of the Vulgate) | |||
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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: Quanti mercenarii (secunda pars)
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1607
Description: Musarum Sioniarum N. 7 - prima pars: Pater peccavi
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Original text and translations
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)