Haec Deum caeli (Jacob Obrecht)

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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-08-24).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Original pitch; note values halved.

General Information

Title: Haec Deum caeli
Composer: Jacob Obrecht
Lyricist: Rabanus Maurus

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet for Candlemas

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Georg Rhau's Sacrorum hymnorum, Book I (Wittenberg, 1542)

Description: Obrecht's motet for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin sets the second verse of "Quod chorus vatum", a hymn attributed to Rabanus Maurus. Three voices (secundus discantus, altus, and tenor) are more or less in canon, while the discantus and bassus have freer material.

Original text and translations

Latin text Haec Deum caeli Dominumque terrae Virgo concepit peperit que virgo, atque post partum meruit manere Inviolata.

English translation The God of heaven and Lord of earth she conceived as a virgin and bore as a virgin, and after giving birth she merited to remain inviolate.