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Responsum accepit Simeon (William Byrd)
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General Information
Title: Responsum accepit Simeon
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), vol.1 no.5
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Responsum accepit Simeon a Spiritu Sancto non visurum se mortem nisi videret Christum Domini.
- Luke 2: 26
English translation
Simeon received an answer of the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death unless he saw first the Christ of our Lord.



