Quem terra, pontus, aethera (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #8685:

Editor: David Fraser (added 2004-12-04).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 123 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised Oct 2008

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Title: Quem terra, pontus, aethera
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), vol. 3, no.1

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Quem terra, pontus, aethera
colunt, adorant, praedicant,
trinam regentem machinam
claustrum Mariae baiulat.

Cui luna, sol, et omnia
deserviunt per tempora,
perfusa caeli gratia,
gestant Puellae viscera.

Beata mater, munere,
cuius supernus artifex,
mundum pugillo continens,
ventris sub arca clausus est.

Beata caeli nuntio,
fecunda Sancto Spiritu,
desideratus gentibus,
cuius per alvum fusus est.

Gloria tibi Domine
qui natus es de virgine
cum Patre et sancto spiritu
in sempiterna saecula.
Amen.