Rex Babylonis (Jacobus Vaet)

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• (Posted 2025-02-17)  CPDL #83906: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-02-17).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 178 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch for SAATB or transposed down a fourth for ATTBB.

• (Posted 2019-05-31)  CPDL #54413: 

• Original key (high chiavette):   (MIDI)    

• Transposed down a minor third:   (MIDI)   - Altos in transposed violin clef.

• Transposed down a fourth:   (MIDI)   - Altos in transposed violin clef.

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2019-05-31).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 177 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1568 print. Original note values.

General Information

Title: Rex Babylonis
Composer: Jacobus Vaet
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SAATB or ATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1568 in Novi thesauri musici (Pietro Giovannelli), Liber 2, no. 24
Description:  A setting of the Apocryphal account of Daniel in the lions' den. This motet was used as the model for a parody mass by Johannes de Cleve.

Original text and translations

Latin text Rex Babylonis venit ad lacum, et introspexit, et ecce Daniel sedens in medio leonum. Exclamavit rex voce magna dicens: Magnus es Domine, Deus Danielis, et extraxit eum de lacu leonum. Tunc rex ait: paveant habitantes universam terram Deum Danielis, quia ipse est salvator et liberator, faciens mirabilia in coelo et in terra, qui liberavit Danielem de lacu leonum. (Daniel 14;39b-40, 42)

English translation The king of Babylon came to the den, and looked in, and behold Daniel was sitting in the midst of the lions. And the king cried out with a loud voice, saying: Great art thou, O Lord, the God of Daniel. And he drew him out of the lions' den. Then the king said: Let all the inhabitants of the whole earth fear the God of Daniel, for he is the Saviour and deliverer, working signs, and wonders in the earth, who hath delivered Daniel out of the lions' den.

Hungarian translation Babilon királya a veremhez ért, betekintett, és íme, Dániel ott ült az oroszlánok között. Erre a király hangosan felkiáltott és így szólt: Nagy vagy, Uram, Dániel Istene! Aztán kihúzta a veremből. Ekkor a király így szólt: a Föld minden lakója félje Dániel istenét, mert ő a megváltó és szabadító, aki csodálatos dolgokat visz végbe a mennyben és a földön, aki kimentette Dánielt az oroszlánok verméből.