Fuit homo missus

General information

Motet for the Nativity of John the Baptist.
Source of text is John 1: 6,7 (altered), used as both a Responsory and a Gradual.

Notes on selected settings

• Ivo de Vento MsTTTB

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Giovanni Bassano — Fuit homo missus a 8  Latin ATTB.TTTB
• Benedetto Binaghi — Fuit homo  Latin SATTB
• Andrea Gabrieli — Fuit homo missus a Deo  Latin SATT,SATB
• Jan Le Febure — Fuit homo missus  Latin SATB.ATTB.SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Fuit homo missus a Deo a 4  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Fuit homo missus a Deo a 5  Latin SAATB
• Hieronymus Praetorius — Fuit homo missus a Deo  Latin SSTBB
• Ivo de Vento — Fuit homo missus a Deo  Latin ATTTB

Text and translations

Latin text 1:6  Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Joannes. 1:7  Hic venit in testimonium, ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine, et pararet Domino plebem perfectam.

English translation 1:6  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 1:7  This man came as a witness, to give testimony about the light, and to prepare for the Lord a perfect people. Translation by Edward Tambling