Mille quingentis/Requiem aeternam (Jacob Obrecht)

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• (Posted 2015-06-27)  CPDL #35909:       

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2015-06-27).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 1.15 MB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: New Obrecht Edition, vol. 16, ed. Chris Maas, Utrecht, 1996. Notation here is a minor third higher than original with time values halved. Translation, text underlay and musica ficta by John Hetland and the Renaissance Street Singers. 23 Apr 2014

General Information

Title: Mille quingentis/Requiem aeternam
Composer: Jacob Obrecht
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Lament

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1488 or later
.     2nd published: 1504 in Motetti C (Ottaviano Petrucci), no. 11
Description: Lament on the death of the composer's father. The tenor sings the Requiem aeternam chant.

Original text and translations

Latin text Mílle quingéntis vérum bis sex mínus ánnis Vírgine progéniti lápsis ab orígine Chrísti, Sicílides flérunt Múse, dum Fáta tulérunt Hóbrecht Guillérmum, mágna probitáte decórum, Cecílie ad féstum, qui Cecíliam peragrávit Oram; ídem Orphéicum Músis Jácobum generávit. Ergo dúlce mélos succentórum chórus álme Cóncine ut ad célos sit vécta ánima  et dáta pálme. Amen Cantus firmus: Réquiem aetérnam dóna éis, Dómine, et lux perpétua lúceat éis.

English translation After fifteen hundred minus twice six years passed since the birth of Christ, the Virgin's progeny, Sicilian Muses wept as the Fates took away Guillermus Obrecht, adorned with great worthiness, On the feast of Cecilia, he who traveled thru the Cecilian shore; the same begot the Orphic Jacob for the Muses. Therefore a sweet song, gentle accompanying choir, sing, that his soul may be carried to heaven  and given the palm. Amen Eternal rest grant them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upone them.