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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2016-08-15).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Rex Melchior
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Lyricist: Anon

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet for Epiphany

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1584 in Motettorum liber quintus, 5vv, no. 15
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Rex Melchior, Rex Gaspar, Rex Balthasar,
rogamus vos per Regem regum,
quem vagientem in cunis videre meruistis,
ut compatiamini tribulationibus nostris.

English.png English translation

O King Melchior, King Casper, King Balthasar,
we beseech you, by the King of kings,
whom you deserved to see even in his swaddling-clothes,
that you take pity on our troubles.

(trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)

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