Libera nos, salva nos II (John Sheppard)

See also: Libera nos, salva nos I by the same composer

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• (Posted 2025-02-06)  CPDL #83774:     

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2025-02-06).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 198 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the early manuscript sources. Original pitch and note values retained. This edition sets Sheppard's antiphon within the context of the memorial for the Trinity according to the Use of Sarum.

• (Posted 2011-03-26)  CPDL #23343:   

Editor: Adrian Wall (submitted 2011-03-26).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 532 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: First and second settings, with plainchant. Part 1 based on #18099; part 2 based on edition at [1]. Transposed up a fourth from original written pitch, for SSAATTB

General Information

Title: Libera nos, salva nos
Composer: John Sheppard

Number of voices: 7vv   Voicing: SSAATTB, or AATTBarBarB
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 155
Description: Sheppard’s two settings of the antiphon were written for votive use. They have often been linked to his tenure as informator choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford. There, however, the antiphon was to be recited by the fellows and scholars privately on rising in the morning and on going to bed and the statutes of the college say nothing about it being sung in the chapel. In view of their rich scoring Sheppard’s settings are more likely to have been composed for the choir of Queen Mary’s Chapel Royal. The cantus firmus of the second setting is a faburden of the plainchant used in the first setting. [For more details, see David Wulstan's notes to The Clerks of Oxenford's recording, Proudsound PROU CD126]

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Libera nos.