Inventae Crucis (Natale Monferrato)

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Editor: Jolando Scarpa (submitted 2006-04-01).   Score information: Letter, 19 pages, 504 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: No. 4 of 4 Motets for solo voice and basso continuo (pages 15-19). Edited from a manuscript preserved at Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale G. Battista Martini, Bologna. Copyright © by Ensemble Laura Conti - Bologna 2000

General Information

Title: Inventæ Crucis
Composer: Natale Monferrato

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo high
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Inventae crucis festum recolimus
Cujus praeconium universum
Per orbem micanti lumine fulget.
Crux splendidor cunctis astris mundo,
celebris hominibus multum amabilis.
Sanctior universis.
O crux fidelis.
Quae sola fuisti digna portare talentum mundi.
Crux fidelis, crux splendidior,
Crux amabilis, dulce lignum,
Dulces clavos, dulcia ferrens pondera.
Salva presentem catervam
In tuis hodie laudibus congregatam.
Crux fidelis inter omnes arbor una nobilis.
Nulla sylva talem profert fronde, flore, germine.
Tu sola excelsior super omnia ligna cedrorum.
Alleluja.