Sancta et immaculata (Hans Leo Hassler)

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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-06-01).   Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 113 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Transposed up a whole step (SATTB.ATTBB). (Even then, you may be hard-pressed to find a bass comfortable singing lots of low Ds and Es.)

General Information

Title: Sancta et immaculata
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler

Number of voices: 10vv   Voicing: SATTB.ATTBB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Sacri concentus, 1601

Description: This Marian motet is No. 49 in Hassler's Sacri concentus (Nuremberg, 1601); it is No. 59 in the revised edition of 1612.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Sancta et immaculata virginitas. Sancta, et immaculata Virginitas,
quibus te laudibus efferam, nescio:
quia, quem coeli capere non poterant,
tuo gremio contulisti:
in aeternum permanes Virgo.

English.png English translation O holy and immaculate virginity,
I know not by what praises I may extol thee.
For He whom the heavens could not contain
thou hast borne in thy womb.
Thou abidest a virgin for ever.