Puer natus est nobis (William Byrd)

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Editions in original key and with original note values

• CPDL #04210: Sibelius 4

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2002-11-18).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 137 kbytes    Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised 11/08.

• CPDL #04192: Finale 2001

Editor: Unknown (submitted 2001-11-15).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 264 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Editions in original key but with note values halved

• CPDL #04711: Sibelius

Editor: Steve Sanders (submitted 2003-04-04).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 90 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved.

• CPDL #04191: Finale 2002

Editor: Lora Crighton (submitted 2002-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 192 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved.

• CPDL #03063: Finale 2001

Editor: Frank van Nimwegen (submitted 2001-10-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 88 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved. Contains only the first part, the Cantate Domino and Gloria Patri being omitted.

Transposed edition, original note values

• CPDL #18316:

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-11-20).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 137 kbytes    Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: CPDL #4210 transposed up a minor 3rd.

General Information

Title: Puer natus est nobis
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB or AATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Gradual for Christmas Day

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia II (1607), no.1

Description: Introit for Third Mass of the Nativity and for the Octave of the Nativity

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Original text and translations

The first part draws from Isaiah 9:6. The second is based on Psalm 97:1.

Latin text

Puer natus est nobis

Et filius datus est nobis

Cuius imperium super humerum eius

Et vocabitur nomen eius

Magni consilii Angelus

Cantate Domino canticum novum

Quia mirabilia fecit

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto

Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper,

in secula seculorum. Amen.

English translation

A boy is born to us,

And a son is given to us,

upon whose shoulders authority rests,

and His name will be called

"The Angel of Great Counsel".

Sing to the Lord a new song,

because he has done the miraculous.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, and is now, and always will be,

in every human generation. Amen.