Ut queant laxis (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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- Editor: Nancho Alvarez (submitted 2004-10-19). Score information: A4 Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed alphabetically under 'Hymnos'. Full score and individual parts available as midi files.
General Information
Title: Ut queant laxis
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Ut queant laxis
resonare fibris
mira gestorum
famuli tuorum,
solve polluti
labiis reatum,
sancte Joannes.
Ille promissi
dubius superni
per didit promptae
modulos loquelae;
sed reformasti
genitus peremptae
organa vocis.
Laudibus cives
celebrant superni
te, Deus simplex
pariterque trine;
supplices ac nos
veniam precamur:
parce redemptis.
Nuntius celso
veniens Olympo,
te patri magnum
fore nasciturum,
nomen, et vitae
seriem gerendae,
ordine promit.
Ventris obstruso
recubans cubili,
senseras Regem
thalamo manentem:
hinc parens,
nati, meritis,
uterque, abdita pandit.