O gloriosa Domina (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #8503: Sibelius 2.
  

Editor: David Fraser (added 2004-11-10).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 104 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: O gloriosa Domina
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 3vv  Voicing: ATB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), vol. 3, no. 2

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Original text and translations

Latin text

O gloriosa domina

excelsa super sidera,

qui te creavit provide,

lactas sacrato ubere.

Quod Eva tristis abstulit,

tu reddis almo germine;

intrent ut astra flebiles,

sternis benigna semitam.

Tu regis alti ianua

et porta lucis fulgida;

vitam datam per Virginem,

gentes redemptae, plaudite.

Patri sit Paraclito

tuoque Nato gloria,

qui veste te mirabili

circumdederunt gratiae. Amen.

English text

O Heaven's glorious mistress,

elevated above the stars,

thou feedest with thy sacred breast

him who created thee.

What miserable Eve lost

thy dear offspring to man restors,

the way to glory is open to the wretched

for thou has become the Gate of Heaven.

Thou art the door of the High King,

the gate of shining light.

Life is given through a Virgin:

Rejoice, ye redeemed nations.

Glory be to Thee, O Lord,

Born of a Virgin,

with the Father and the Holy Spirit,

world without end. Amen.