O beatum pontificem (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2012-06-20)  CPDL #26541:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-06-20).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original key and note values.

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Title: O beatum pontificem

Composer: Luca Marenzio

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feast of St. Martin, bishop & confessor.

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1585 in Motectorum pro festis totius anni, no. 29
    2nd published: 1854 in Musica Divina Vol. II (Carl Proske), p. 130
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Original text and translations

Latin text O beatum Pontificem, qui totis visceribus diligebat Christum Regem, et non formidabat imperii principatum: O Martine dulcedo, medicamentum et medice: O sanctissima anima, quam etsi gladius persecutoris non abstulit, Palmam tamen martyrii non amisit.

English translation O blessed bishop, who loved Christ the King with all thine inward parts and did not fear the sovereignty of the empire: O Martin, sweetness, medicine, and physician: O holiest soul, which if the sword of the persecutor had not taken away, nevertheless would not have lost the martyr's palm.