Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #16622:

Editor: Matthew Collett (submitted 2008-04-14).   Score information: A5, 4 pages, 311 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: A performing edition of the Prima pars only. Transposed up one tone for SATB, with note values halved.

• CPDL #05700: Sibelius 4

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2003-10-14).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 130 kbytes    Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised February 2008

General Information

Title: Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: ATTB or SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia II (1607), no.16

Description: Alleluia, Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament. The music from the verse Caro mea to the end is reprinted exactly from the gradual Oculi Omnium (Gradualia I, 2/2), a unique example of a transfer from the earlier publication.

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli Dominum Jesum in fractione panis.

Alleluia. Caro mea vere est cibus, et sanguis meus vere est potus: qui manducat carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet, et ego in eo. Alleluia.

English translation
from the score

Alleluia. The disciples knew the Lord Jesus in the breaking of bread.

Alleluia. My flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him. Alleluia.