Rorate coeli (Annunciation) (Heinrich Isaac)

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• (Posted 2018-11-22)  CPDL #52229:     

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2018-11-22).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 386 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Isaac's Choralis Constantinus, Book III, ed. Louise Cuyler, 1950. Notation here is a tone higher than original with time values halved. Translation, text underlay and editorial accidentals by John Hetland and the Renaissance Street Singers. 21 Nov 2018

General Information

Title: Rorate coeli desuper
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
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Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Introit

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1555 in Choralis Constantinus, Volume 3

Description: Isaac: In Festo Annuntiationis B. Mariae V.; Liber Usualis: The Fourth Sunday of Advent.

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Original text and translations

Latin text Roráte coéli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum: aperiátur térra et gérminet Salvatórem. Coéli enárrant glóriam Déi et ópera mánuum éjus annúntiat firmaméntum.

English translation Drop dew, heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain justice: let the earth be opened and produce a Savior. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the works of his hand the sky proclaims.