Hostis Herodes impie (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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- Editor: Nancho Alvarez (added 2004-10-19). Score information: A4 Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed alphabetically under 'Hymnos'. full score and individual parts available as midi files, also available as Postscript file.
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Title: Hostis Herodes Impie
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
Hostis Herodes impie,
Christum venire quid times?
Non eripit mortalia _
qui regna dat caelestia.
Lavacra puri gurgitis
caelestis Agnus attigit:
peccata, quae non detulit
nos abluendo sustulit.
Jesu, tibi sit gloria
qui apparuisti gentibus
cum Patre, et almo Spiritu
in sempiterna saecula.
Ibant Magi quam viderant
stellam sequentes praeviam:
Lumen requirunt lumine:
Deum fatentur munere.
Novum genus potentiae:
Aquae rubescunt hydriae,
vinumque jussa fundere,
mutavit unda originem.