Salvator mundi (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
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- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2020-01-23). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 87 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Original pitch and note values. A few notes have been altered editorially (with a description of the change provided on each occasion) to make the harmony less bare at the points concerned, because virtually throughout the work the harmony is otherwise quite sonorous.
General Information
Title: Salvator mundi
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1553 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum, liber 3 (Susato, Antwerp), no. 16
2nd published: 1559 in Liber quintus cantionum sacrarum quatuor vocum (Phalèse), no. 3
Description: Motet in two sections from one of Susato's miscellanies. It opens with the words 'Salvator mundi salva nos' but the rest of the text differs from that of the well-known setting by Tallis.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Salvator mundi, salva nos omnes.