Ego sum qui sum a 8 (Giovanni Gabrieli)

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  • (Posted 2015-10-17)  CPDL #37241:   
Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2015-10-17).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 112 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Edited from facsimile of original print Promptuarium musicum, Pars Altera (Abraham Schadaeus).

General Information

Title: Ego sum qui sum a 8
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: ATBarB.ATBarB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1597 in Symphoniae sacrae I, no. 24
    2nd published: 1612 in Promptuarium musicum, Pars Altera, no. 14
Description: Setting of Antiphons 1-3, Easter Sunday Matins.

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Ego sum, qui sum, et consilium meum non est cum impiis:
sed in lege Domini voluntas mea est: Alleluia.
Postulavi patrem meum dedit mihi gentes in haereditatem: Alleluia.
Ego dormivi et somnum cepi, et resurrexi:
quoniam Dominus suscepit me: Alleluia.

English.png English translation

I am who I am, and my counsel is not with the wicked,
but my will is in the law of the Lord, alleluia.
I asked my Father, and he gave me the nations as an inheritance.
I slept and took rest, and rose,
for the Lord hath protected me, alleluia.