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Signum crucis mirabile (Cristóbal de Morales)
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General Information
Title: Signum crucis mirabile
Composer: Cristóbal de Morales
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: STTB or SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1546
Description: No. 5 of 20 motets published in 1546 in Venice by Antonio Gardano. (facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich (4° Mus.pr. 42/3))
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Prima pars
Signum crucis mirabile
Olim per orbem renitens
In quo pependit innocens
Christus redemptor omnium.
Secunda pars
Haec arbor est sublimior
Cedris quas habet Libanus
Quae poma nescit noxia
Sed ferae vitae praemia.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
Miraculous sign of the cross,
on which Christ, innocent,
the redeemer of all,
hung, struggling for the sake of the world.
This trunk of wood is more sublime
than the cedars of Lebanon:
it bears no poisonous fruit
but the reward of life.
