Pontifex Sixtus (Martyris Christi) (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2012-03-26). Score information: A4, 1 page, 55 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The source (MusicXML) file is zipped.
General Information
Title: Pontifex Sixtus (Martyris Christi)
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STT
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: Latin
Instruments: unknown
First published:
Description: Transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr91. The notes' values, accidentals and the colourings are as in the manuscript, the coloured notes are in “proportio sesquialtera” (3 vs. 2). All the three voices have only the text incipit of the second verse of the hymn. The notes' values within the "ligaturæ" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves - the right downstemmed note are longæ. The "musica ficta" suggestions are in the MIDI and MusicXML files.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Sancto Laurentio
Martyris Christi colimus triumphum
annuum tempus venerando, cuius
cernuo voto prece iam rotundus
orbis adorat.
Pontifex Sixtus monuit ministrum
fixus in ligno crucis exequeris
me cito, poenam patiendo magnam
ibis ad astra.
Tortor iratus petit, ut talenti
pondus ignoti manifestet omne
mente vesana cupiens vorare
aurea lucra.
Sprevit hic mundiun peritura dona,
fert opem nudis, alimenta claudis,
dividit nummos miseris cateruis
corde flagranti.
Igne torquetur, stabili tenore
cordis accensus superat minaces
ignium flammas in amore vitae
semper opimae.
Uritur postquam latus omne testis,
verte, profecto loquitur iocando,
corporis partem laniando coctam
dentibus atris.
Spiritum sumpsit chorus angelorum,
intulit coelo pie laureando,
ut scelus laxet hominum precando
omnipotentem.
Supplici voto rogitemus omnes:
sancte Laurenti veniam preceris,
qui tuum festum celebrant ubique
voce vel actu.
Gloriam Patri resonemus omnes,
eius et Nato iubilemus apte,
cum quibus regnat simul et creator
Spiritus almus.