Virgo decus nemorum (Baldassare Donato)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2013-03-16).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 94 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Virgo decus nemorum
Composer: Baldassare Donato
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SSAATTBB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1599

Description: From Il primo libro di Motetti, Venice, 1599, published when Donato had attained the position of Maestro di Capella at St Mark's. This Christ-tide motet exploits the acoustics of that building in a manner copied by his pupil Giovanni Croce in a parallel setting.

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Virgo decus nemorum
Geminasque audita per auras
Quaeque sonos ludis
Concava saepe meos
Hic quis clamor [Amor]
Quis natus Virgine magnus [Agnus]
Dic oro curita clamat [Amat]
Est ne torus mollis sibi stravit quem pia mater [Ater]
An est Echo causa tua [Ausa tua]
Hunc quis de caelis duxit [Lis duxit]
At istam dic vincet [Vincet]
Num moriens [Oriens]
Diligere hunc ergo par est
super omnis Christum [istum]
Quid gravius in amore [morae]
Dum flores [Ores]
Nunc est Deus ille [Heus ille]
An gratum me forereris [Eris]
Ad praesepe iter ergo alacres teneamus [Eamus]
Munera parva feram [Feram]