Ab oriente (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)

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CPDL #26867:    Capella 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-30).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 117 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Ab oriente
Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1612

Description: From Cantiones Sacrae (1619)

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Original text and translations

Latin text Ab Oriente venerunt Magi in Bethlehem adorare Dominum et apertis thesauris suis, pretiosa munera obtulerunt. Aurum sicut Regi magno, thus sicut Deo vero, myrrhae sepulturi eius. alleluia.

English translation Out of the east came the wise men, unto Bethlehem to worship the Lord; and opening their treasury they offered precious gifts. Gold, as for a great king, Incense, as for a true God, Myrrh for his sepulchre. Alleluia.