Valde honorandus est (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• (Posted 2022-09-11)  CPDL #70759: 

• Original key (high chiavette):        

• Transposed down a minor third:       - Alto in octave transposed violin clef.

• Transposed down a fourth:       - Alto in octave transposed violin clef.

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2022-09-11).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Palestrina Werke, 5. Band. Original note values.

• (Posted 2012-06-08)  CPDL #26452:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-06-08).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 40 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Note values as in source.

• (Posted 2012-06-05)  CPDL #26423:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-06-05).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 42 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Note values halved.

General Information

Title: Valde honorandus est
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feast of St. John the Evangelist

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1564 in Motecta festorum totius anni liber primus, 4vv, no. 3
    2nd published: 1854 in Musica Divina Vol. II (Carl Proske), p. 20
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

Valde honorandus est beatus Joannis,
qui supra pectus Domini in coena recubuit:
cui Christus in cruce matrem virginem virgini commendavit.

English translation

Greatly to be honoured is blessed John,
who leaned on the breast of the Lord at the Last Supper:
to whom Christ on the cross commended his mother, the virgin of virgins.