Isti sunt viri sancti (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• (Posted 2022-12-20)  CPDL #71960: 

• Original key (high chiavette):        

• Transposed down a minor third:       - Alto in octave transposed violin clef

• Transposed down a fourth:       - Alto in octave transposed violin clef

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2022-12-20).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 108 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Palestrina Werke, 5. Band. Original note values.

• (Posted 2012-07-16)  CPDL #26777:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 46 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original key and note values.

General Information

Title: Isti sunt viri sancti
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feasts of Apostles and Evangelists.

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1564 in Motecta festorum totius anni liber primus, 4vv, no. 30
    2nd published: 1854 in Musica Divina Vol. II (Carl Proske), p. 135
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Original text and translations

Latin text Isti sunt viri sancti, quos elegit Dominus in charitate non ficta, et dedit illis gloriam sempiternam: quorum doctrina fulget Ecclesia, ut sole luna. The editions I could check - the 1585 edition and the Palestrina Werke edition - have the last line as: ut sol et luna i.e. as the sun and the moon.

English translation These men are holy, whom the Lord hath chosen in love unfeigned, and has given them glory everlasting: By whose doctrine the Church is made resplendent, even as the moon by the sun.