Justi in perpetuum vivent (John Sheppard)

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• (Posted 2020-03-30)  CPDL #57765:  Original pitch for STTBarB, original note values:    
• (Posted 2025-02-06)  CPDL #83745:  Original pitch for STTBarB, halved note values:    
• (Posted 2020-03-30)  CPDL #57764:  Transposed up a major third for SAATB, halved note values:    

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2020-03-30).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 378 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the Baldwin Partbooks with the lost Tenor part reconstructed editorially. Plainsong added from the 1520 printed Sarum antiphonal.

• (Posted 2011-01-15)  CPDL #23009:      Chant-  Polyphony- 

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2011-01-15).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 250 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Early English Church Music, Oxenford Imprint, 1978, edited by David Chadd. Notation here is a fourth higher than the original, with time values halved. Translation, text underlay and musica ficta by John Hetland and the Renaissance Street Singers.

General Information

Title: Justi in perpetuum vivent
Composer: John Sheppard

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: ATTBB or SAATB, (1) STTBarB or ATTBarB; (2) SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Responsory

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 90
Description: A setting of a responsory for Second Vespers on All Saints' Day and for First Vespers and Matins when the Common of Confessors was sung outside of Eastertide.

Original text and translations

Latin text Justi in perpetuum vivent, et apud Dominum est merces eorum, et cogitatio eorum apud altissimum. Ideo accipient regnum decoris et diadema speciei de manu Domini. Gloria laus et honor decus potestas et jubilatio Patri ac Nato et Spiritui Sancto.

English translation The just will live forever, and with the Lord is their reward, and their thought is with the highest. Therefore they accept the kingship of honor and the diadem of distinction from the hand of the Lord. Glory, praise and honor, dignity, power and rejoicing for the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.