Cantique de Siméon (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
Midi | |
MusicXML | |
Capella | |
File details | |
Help |
- Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2012-09-24). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 79 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Mensural notation, original key and note values, original text spelling, musica ficta clearly marked, clefs modernized. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Last revised: 2012-10-10
General Information
Title: Cantique de Siméon
Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
1st part:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
2nd part:
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: French
translation by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544)
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1604 in Pseaumes de David, Livre 1, no. 51
Description: In the second part the Altus and the Sextus have the same ambitus. The Tenor part can easily be sung by basses.
External websites:
Original text and translations
French text
1
Or laisses, Createur
En paix ton serviteur,
Ensuyvant ta promesse:
Puisque mes yeux ont eu
Ce crédit d'avoir veu
De ton salut l'adresse.
2
Salut mis au devant
De ton peuple vivant,
Pour l'ouir et le croire:
Resource des petits,
Lumiere des Gentils,
Et d'Israel la gloire.