Nigra sum (Thomas Crecquillon)

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• (Posted 2022-03-30)  CPDL #68633:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2022-03-30).   Score information: A4, 14 pages, 132 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third. Source: Pierre Phalèse, Liber primus cantionum sacrarum … 5 vocum, 1554.

General Information

Title: Nigra sum
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1553 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum, liber 14 (Tielman Susato), no. 1
    2nd published: 1554 in Cantionum sacrarum liber 1 (Pierre Phalèse), no. 10
    3rd published: 1555 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum, liber 10 (Tielman Susato), no. 7
    4th published: c. 1559 in Quartus liber modulorum quatuor et quinque vocum (Michael Sylvius), no. 3
    5th published: 1576 in Opus sacrarum cantionum, no. 68-69
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Parts in this work

1. Nigra sum – Prima pars

2. Posuerunt – Secunda pars

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Nigra sum sed formosa.