Salvator mundi II (Thomas Tallis)
See also: Tallis's other setting of this text
Music files
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- CPDL #23759: [ ]
- Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-06-18). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 66 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: At original pitch for ATTBarB
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2009-04-18). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 99 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: At original pitch for ATTBB.
- CPDL #03802: Sibelius 2
- Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2002-07-08). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 116 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed up a minor 3rd for SATTB.
General Information
Title: Salvator Mundi
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
or ATTBarB or SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones sacrae (1575), no.21
Description: A canon (not noted in the publication of 1575) between the 1st voice and 4th voice at the octave, two semibreves apart. See When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house for an English-language contrafactum of this motet.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Salvator mundi salva nos,
qui per crucem et sanguinem tuum redemisti nos,
auxiliare nobis,
te deprecamur Deus noster.
English translation
Save us O Savior of the world,
which by Thy cross and blood hast redeemed us,
help us,
we beseech Thee O our God.
Korean translation
구세주여 저희를 구하옵소서
당신의 십자가와 성혈로서 저희를 구속한
하느님께 비나이다, 저희를 도우소서