Salvator mundi I (Thomas Tallis)

See also: Tallis's other setting of this text

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Editor: David Fraser (added 2008-04-07).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 114 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key, for ATTBB.

• CPDL #2529: Encore.
  

Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2001-04-18).   Score information: 140 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a major second, for SAATB.

General Information

Title: Salvator Mundi
Composer: Thomas Tallis

Text: Matins Antiphon, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: ATTBB, SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones sacrae (1575), no.1

Description:

External websites: Image of the bass part of this work in the transcription by Robert Dow (1553-88) at the library of Christ Church College, Oxford.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Salvator mundi, salva nos;

qui per crucem et sanguinem redemisti nos,

auxiliare nobis, te deprecamur, Deus noster.

English translation Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt.

Savior of the world, save us,

who through thy cross and blood didst redeem us:

help us, we beseech thee, our God.

(Good Friday, Antiphon at the Adoration of the Cross)