Music files
Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-05-30 ) . Score information: A4, 3 pages, 109 kB Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: MusicXML file is zipped .
General Information
Title: Deus tuorum militum
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3-4vv Voicings: ATT (the three upper voices) and AATB (staves 1,2,4 & 5)
Genre: Sacred , Office hymn for the Common of Martyrs
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Trent ms88 , copied c.1445-1475
Description: "Commune martyrum" hymn transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr88. It can be sung to either 3 or 4 voices: the three upper voices or the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th voice. Only the text incipit.
External websites:
http://www1.trentinocultura.net/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=22652&mode=2
Original text and translations
Latin text
Deus, tuorum militum
sors et corona, præmium,
laudes canentes martyris
absolve nexu criminis.
Hic (Hæc) nempe mundi gaudia
et blandimenta noxia
caduca rite deputans,
pervenit ad cælestia.
Pœnas cucurrit fortiter
et sustulit viriliter;
pro te refundens sanguinem,
æterna dona possidet.
Ob hoc precatu supplici
te poscimus, piissime;
in hoc triumpho martyris
dimitte noxam servulis.
Ut consequamur muneris
ipsius et consortia,
lætemur ac perenniter
iuncti polorum sedibus.
Laus et perennis gloria
tibi, Pater, cum Filio,
Sancto simul Paraclito
in sæculorum sæcula.
English translation
God, your soldiers’
destiny, crown, and reward,
those who sing in praise of the martyr
free from the grip of sin.
Truly, by considering the joys
and blandishments of the world
noxious and ephemeral,
he reached the celestial plane.
Bravely he ran into strifes
and endured them courageously:
and, shedding his blood for you,
he won everlasting gifts.
By this prayer we humbly
entreat you, most holy:
in this triump of the martyr
forgive the guilt of the worshiper.
So that we may obtain the plethora
of the martyr's rewards,
let us be forever merry,
joined in the heavenly abodes.
Praise and perpetual glory
to you, the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Paraclete also,
through all the ages.