Audite insulae (Adrian Willaert)

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• (Posted 2018-12-14)  CPDL #52622:    (MIDI)    

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-12-14).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 150 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1559 print. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values.

General Information

Title: Audite insulae
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for Advent II

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1559 in Musica nova, no. 1.16
Description: See also Balbi's setting.

Original text and translations

Latin text Audite insulae et attendite populi de longe: Dominus ab utero vocavit me, de ventre matris meae recordatus est nominis mei. Et posuit os meum quasi gladium acutum et in umbra manus suae protexit me et dixit mihi: Dedi te in lucem gentium ut sis salvus mea usque ad extremum terrae.

English translation Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath protected me[…] And he said: […]I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth. (Isa. 49:1-2a,6b, Douay 1610)