Salvator mundi I (Thomas Tallis)
See also: Tallis's other setting of this text
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CPDL #28161:
Capella
- Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2013-01-28). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 72 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Mensural notation, original note values and key signature, clefs modernized, musica ficta clearly marked
- CPDL #23758: This edition has been withdrawn at the request of the editor. CPDL #23758: Tallis_-_Salvator_mundi_I.pdf
- Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-06-18). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 68 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: In original key for ATTBarB
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- CPDL #24936: This edition has been withdrawn at the request of the editor. CPDL #24936: Tallis_-_Salvator_mundi_I_down_a_m3.pdf
- Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-11-14). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third from the original key for the same scoring
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General Information
Title: Salvator mundi
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Text: Matins Antiphon, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: ATTBarB, SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones sacrae (1575), no.1
Description:
External websites:
- Image of the bass part of this work in the transcription by Robert Dow (1553-88) at the library of Christ Church, Oxford.
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Salvator mundi, salva nos.
Salvator mundi, salva nos;
qui per crucem et sanguinem redemisti nos,
auxiliare nobis, te deprecamur, Deus noster.
English translation
Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt
Savior of the world, save us,
who through thy cross and blood didst redeem us:
help us, we beseech thee, our God.
Korean translation
구세주여 저희를 구하옵소서
십자가와 성혈로서 저희를 구속한
하느님께 비나이다, 저희를 도우소서