Vidit Jacob scalam (Thomas Crecquillon)

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• CPDL #10809:

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2005-03-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 121 kbytes    Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Revised edition and synthesized MP3 (choral ahs) uploaded 2011-01-06.

Transposed edition

• CPDL #22967:

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2011-01-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 121 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third for ATBarBB, with synthesized MP3 (trombone choir).

General Information

Title: Vidit Jacob scalam
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Feast of the Dedication of a Church. 5th Antiphon at Matins.

External websites:

Original text and translations

Latin text
Vidit Jacob scalam,
Summitas ejus caelos tangebat,
Et Angelos descendentes,
Et dixit: Vere locus iste sanctus est. Alleluia.

English translation
Jacob saw a ladder,
the top of which reached to heaven,
and angels descending on it.
And he said: Surely this place is holy. Alleluia.

Genesis 28:12,17