Inter natos mulierum (Hans Leo Hassler)

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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-02-24).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor 3rd from the original; note values halved.

General Information

Title: Inter natos mulierum
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Antiphon for the Nativity of John the Baptist

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones sacrae, 1591

Description: This motet for the feast of John the Baptist is No. 12 in Hassler's Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni. . . , published at Augsburg in 1591.

Original text and translations

Latin text Inter natos mulierum non surrexit maior Iohanne Baptista qui viam Domini praeparavit in heremo. Alleluia.

English text Among those born of women there arose none greater than John the Baptist who prepared the way of the Lord in the wilderness. Alleluia.