Salvator mundi II (Thomas Tallis)

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See also: Tallis's other setting of this text

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Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-06-18).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: In original key for ATTBarB

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General Information

Title: Salvator Mundi
Composer: Thomas Tallis

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: ATTBB or SATTB

Genre: SacredMotet

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.png Latin text

Salvator mundi salva nos,
qui per crucem et sanguinem tuum redemisti nos,
auxiliare nobis,
te deprecamur Deus noster.

English.png 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.png Korean translation

구세주여 저희를 구하옵소서
당신의 십자가와 성혈로서 저희를 구속한
하느님께 비나이다, 저희를 도우소서