Tibi decus et imperium (Michael des Buissons)

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• (Posted 2024-11-10)  CPDL #82679:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2024-11-10).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 106 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a tone.

General Information

Title: Tibi decus et imperium
Composer: Michael des Buissons
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 7vv   Voicing: SSAATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1568 in Novi thesauri musici (Pietro Giovannelli), Liber 1, no. 69
Description: Published by Antonio Gardano, Venice, 1568. Trinity motet. There is a cantus firmus in three voices, in canon at the fifth and octave.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Tibi decus et imperium, tibi gloria et potestas,
et iubilatio in sempiterna saecula.

O beata Trinitas.
Gloria tibi Trinitas aequalis una deitas
et ante omnia saecula
et nunc et in perputuum.

O adoranda Trinitas, o veneranda unitas.