Iste confessor (Heinrich Finck)

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• CPDL #22273: 

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2010-09-07).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 193 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Based on Das Chorwerk #9, edited by Rudolf Gerber, Berlin, 1931. We have raised the notation a minor third. Musica ficta, text underlay and translation by John Hetland and The Renaissance Street Singers.

General Information

Title: Iste confessor
Composer: Heinrich Finck

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Office hymn

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Hymn at Vespers for the common of a Confessor Bishop. The text is the first of five verses of the hymn.

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Original text and translations

Latin text Iste confessor  Domini sacratus, Festa plebs cuius  celebrat per orbem. Hodie laetus  meruit secreta Scandere coeli.

English translation That confessor  is consecrated to the Lord, Whose feasts the people  celebrate throughout the world. Today the happy one  merited the mysteries Of heaven to climb.