Sanctorum meritis (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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- Editor: Nancho Alvarez (submitted 2004-10-19). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 99 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed alphabetically under 'Hymnos'. Full score and individual parts available as midi files.
General Information
Title: Sanctorum meritis
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
Latin text
- Odd verses :
Sanctorum meritis inclyta gaudia
pangamus, socii, gestaque fortia:
Num gliscit animus promere cantibus
victorum genus optimum.
Hi pro te furias atque ferocia
calcarunt hominum saevaque verbera,
cessit his lacerans fortiter ungula
nec carpsit penetralia.
Quae vox, quae poterit lingua retexere,
quae tu martyribus munera praeparas?
rubri nam fluido sanguine laureis
ditantur bene fulgidis.
- Even verses
Hi sunt quos retinens
mundus inhorruit
ipsum nam sterili
flore per aridum
sprevere penitus
teque secuti sunt
Rex Christe bone Coelitus.
Coeduntur gladiis,
more bidentium:
Non murmur resonat,
non querimonia:
Sed corde tacito
mens bene conscia
conservat patientiam.
Te summa Deitas,
unaque poscimus,
ut culpas abluas
noxia subtrahas,
des pacem famulis
nos quoque gloriam
per cuncta tibi saecula.
Amen.