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  • CPDL #28234:  Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Steven Marchand (submitted 2013-02-08).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 43 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Taken from volume one of the "Opera omnia Ioannis Petraloysii Praenestini" edited by Theodor de Witt. That edition published c. 1870. Re-notated with modern clefs and transposed down a whole step.
  • CPDL #18553:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Finale.png
Editor: Paul R. Marchesano (submitted 2008-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes:

General Information

Title: O admirabile commercium
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1569 (Liber primus motettorum, Rome). Later it was republished in a collection entitled Florilegium sacrarum cantionum by Phalèse in Antwerp in 1602.

Description: The text of this motet is often translated poetically. The original text uses the relatively rare word, commercium, lit. "intercourse/sex" and the phrase, sine semine, literally "without semen".

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at O admirabile commercium.