Suscipe quaeso Domine - Si enim iniquitates (Thomas Tallis)
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- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2021-12-19). Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 184 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes:
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-10-24). Score information: A4, 17 pages, 208 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Up a minor third from written pitch for SSAATBB.
- Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: In this higher pitched score, the third and fourth voices (Contra Tenor and Discantus) should have treble clef, not octave G clef. - Mick Swithinbank
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-10-23). Score information: A4, 17 pages, 202 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: At original written pitch for AATTBBB
General Information
Title: Suscipe quaeso Domine - Si enim iniquitates
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Lyricist: Isidore of Sevillecreate page (c.560-636)
Number of voices: 7vv Voicings: AATTBBB or SSAATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1575 in Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur, no. 27-28
Description: It has been suggested that this work may have been written as a companion to the 7-part Missa Puer natus est nobis, and so to date from around 1554. However, it appears stylistically to be more closely related to Tallis's Elizabethan works, especially Spem in alium.
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Original text and translations
Latin text Suscipe quaeso Domine vocem confitentis. |
English translation Receive, I beseech, O Lord, the voice of one who confesses. |