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Agnus Dei (Thomas Morley)
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- Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-10-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 50 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: At original pitch for SATB
- Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2011-04-02). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 97 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: With original clefs, note values, and unbarred layout, this diplomatic edition accords faithfully with the original 1597 publication. Copyright by the composer for CPDL, may be freely copied, distributed, performed, or recorded.
- Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2011-04-02). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 121 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Original key and note values, this performing edition accords with the work as originally published in 1597, but also includes annotations for the later score published as an appendix to the 1771 reprinting of the original source by William Randall. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Copyright by the composer for CPDL, may be freely copied, distributed, performed, or recorded.
- Transposed editions
- Down a perfect fourth
- Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-10-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 50 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a perfect fourth from original pitch for ATTB
- Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2011-04-02). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 122 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed down a perfect fourth from the original, for ATBarB, and otherwise identical with CPDL #23327 above. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Copyright by the composer for CPDL, may be freely copied, distributed, performed, or recorded.
- Down a minor third
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-14). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 44 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: This has nobis substituted for the original nostri in the Latin text, to make it more suitable for liturgical use. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Transposed down a minor third, note values halved.
- Down a major second
- Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-10-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 50 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a tone from original pitch
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 2000-06-07). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 48 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Finale file is zipped. Transposed down a major second, note values halved.
General Information
Title: Agnus Dei
Composer: Thomas Morley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB or ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (1597)
Description: This motet was included by Morley in his treatise A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (1597) as an example of his principles of composition. It is suitable for Lenten or general use, but it is not liturgically suitable for the Ordinary of the Mass, especially since the text is not the same as that of the Mass.
However, while the word nostri is substituted for the usual nobis, this is not grammatically incorrect by any means; the Latin verb misereor (I have mercy) takes the genitive case (here, nostri, another example being Miserere mei; nobis and mihi are the dative of these words, respectively), but often governs the dative in ecclesiastical Latin.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nostri.
English translation
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
