Circumspice Jerusalem (William Byrd)

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• (Posted 2024-08-13)  CPDL #81603:   

Editor: Jean-Paul Feo (submitted 2024-08-13).   Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 171 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Missing parts reconstructed from The Cardinall's Musick recording. Transcribed from extant sources, with original text underlay and in original key.

General Information

Title: Circumspice Jerusalem
Composer: William Byrd
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATBB
Genre: Sacred, Anglican chant

Language: Latin
Instruments: Unknown

First published: Latin
Description: A setting of text from Baruch. The middle two voices are missing from the partbooks, but can be reconstructed from a contemporary lutebook.

Original text and translations

Latin text Circumspice, Jerusalem ad Orientem, et vide jucunditatem a Deo tibi venientem. Ecce, enim veniunt, filii tui quos dimisisti dispersos: veniunt collecti ab Oriente usque ad occidentem, et [in] verbo Sancti gaudentes in honorem Dei.

English text Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the east, and behold the joy that cometh to thee from God. For behold thy children come, whom thou sentest away scattered, they come gathered together from the East even to the West, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing for the honour of God.