Tota pulchra es (Jean Mouton)
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- (Posted 2015-11-27) CPDL #37689:
(Finale 2014)
- Editor: Humphrey Thompson (submitted 2015-11-27). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 288 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Original pitch, scored for TBaBaB. Underlay has been changed where appropriate but not placed in italics.
General Information
Title: Tota Pulchra Es
Composer: Jean Mouton
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A Cappella
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Description: This piece is copied in the so-called Anne Boleyn Songbook, MS 1070 in the Royal College of Music, a choirbook containing works by Josquin, Févin, Mouton, Compère and Sermisy. The text is from the Canticum Canticorum 4:7 (Song of Songs). The themes of the choral works in the manuscript are of love and childbirth. See the Alamire CD Anne Boleyn's Songbook for more details in the cover notes by their director, David Skinner.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Tota pulchra es amica mea, et macula non est in te.
English translation
You are completely beautiful, my love, and there is no flaw in you.