Duo seraphim
Settings by composers
- Richard Dering SS
- Juan Esquivel a 6
- Francisco Guerrero a 12
- Jacob Handl a 8
- Hans Leo Hassler a 12
- Marco Antonio Ingegneri a 8
- Claudio Monteverdi a 3
- Tomás Luis de Victoria a 4
There are also settings by Marco da Gagliano (1618), Henri Dumont (SS & Bc in Motets, 1681) and Samuel Scheidt (Cantiones sacrae, 8vv (Hamburg, 1620)).
Original text and translations
Latin text
Duo seraphim clamabant alter ad alterum:
Sanctus Dominus Deus Saboath.
Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus. (Isaiah 6:3)
Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo:
Pater, Verbum et Spiritus Sanctus:
et hi tres unum sunt.
Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus.
English translation
Two seraphim cried to one another:
Holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
There are three who bear witness in heaven:
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit:
and these three are one.
Holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
English translations by John Kilpatrick, PDF and Word documents available as part of translation of Vespers of 1610 (Monteverdi)