Vigilate (William Byrd)

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Editor: David Fraser (added 2002-08-17).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 155 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Revised July 2006 (revisions to underlay)

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Title: Vigilate
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: Cantiones Sacrae I (1589), no.16

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Vigilate, nescitis enim quando dominus domus veniat, sero, an media nocte, an gallicantu, an mane.
Vigilate ergo, ne cum venerit repente, inveniat vos dormientes.
Quod autem dico vobis, omnibus dico: vigilate.

(Mark 13: 35-37)

English translation

Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning):
Watch therefore, lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.
And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.