Plangent eum (Alexander Utendal)

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• (Posted 2024-07-06)  CPDL #81219:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2024-07-06).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 147 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1568 print. Incorporated as musica ficta two explicit sharp signs from the 1573 print. In the Sextus in m. 79 we changed the penultimate note from G to A, according to the recording of Capilla Flamenca. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values.

• (Posted 2021-08-13)  CPDL #65468:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-08-13).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 135 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Book Two of Utendal's motets, Gerlach, Nuremberg, 1573.

General Information

Title: Plangent eum
Composer: Alexander Utendal
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1568 in Novi thesauri musici (Pietro Giovannelli), Liber 1, no. 45
    2nd published: 1573 in Sacrae cantiones … sex et plurimum vocum … liber secundus, no. 8
Description: A seemingly freely texted Passiontide motet. The two publications of this motet differ in several small details.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Plangent eum quasi unigenitum
quia innocens Dominus occisus est.
Mulieres stantes et flentes lamentabantur Dominum,
quia innocens Dominus occisus est.