Exultate Deo (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• (Posted 2025-06-06)  CPDL #85355:         

Editor: Maia McCormick (submitted 2025-06-06).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: SAATB, with slight rearrangements to keep AI more consistently above AII. A major, long note values. Editorial dynamics (edition w/o dynamics available on request).

• (Posted 2025-05-12)  CPDL #84857:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-05-12).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

• (Posted 2019-10-18)  CPDL #55642:       

Editor: Patrick Williams (submitted 2019-10-18).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 551 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Keyboard reduction added to CPDL #00324.

• (Posted 2018-02-07)  CPDL #48726: 

• Original pitch (F):         - Alto parts are in tenor clef

• Transposed up a note (G):      

• Transposed up a minor third (A flat):      

• Transposed up a major third (A):      

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-02-07).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 89 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1584 print. Original note-values.

• (Posted 2017-10-27)  CPDL #47043:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-10-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In A. Transcribed from Sammlung ausgezeichneter Kompositionen für die Kirche III (Stephan Lück, 1907). Revised files uploaded 15/2/21.

• (Posted 2017-05-12)  CPDL #44473:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: Brian Marble (submitted 2017-05-12).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In G for SAATB.

• (Posted 2010-06-27)  CPDL #21715:        (Sibelius 6)

Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2010-06-02).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: At original pitch for male voices.

• (Posted 2004-09-18)  CPDL #07883:   

Editor: Drew Collins (submitted 2004-09-18).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 226 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: In A flat. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Previously hosted on external site. Uploaded to CPDL server 2008-03-06.

• (Posted 2002-07-16)  CPDL #03848:         

Editor: Marco Croci (submitted 2002-07-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 88 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In A.

• (Posted 1999-08-12)  CPDL #00324:        (Finale 1998)

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-08-12).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 140 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In A flat.

General Information

Title: Exultate Deo
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Source of text: Psalm 80:2-4 (Vulgate)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB, or ATTBarB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Motettorum liber quintus, 5vv, no. 17
    2nd published: 1907 in Sammlung ausgezeichneter Kompositionen für die Kirche, no. 3.31
Description: 

External websites:

• Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
• An arrangement by Christopher Gibbons in English is available here on CPDL.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 81.