Sancti Spiritus (Guillaume Dufay)
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- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2012-05-03). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 169 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The source file (MusicXML) is zipped
General Information
Title: Sancti Spiritus
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAA
Genre: Sacred, Unknown
Language: Latin
Instruments: Unknown
Published:
Description: Sequentia for the feast of Pentecost transcribed from the Trent manuscripts tr93 and tr92. The attribution to Dufay is doubtful. The time signature is missing, the “tempus perfectum” has been assumed from the context. In the tr92 manuscript the Contra and the Tenor are in F key. The notes' values and colourings are as in the manuscript., the coloured notes are “hemiolæ”. The notes' values within the "ligaturæ" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed note are breves. The "musica ficta" suggestions are in the MIDI and MusicXML files.
External websites: http://www1.trentinocultura.net/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=22652&mode=2
Original text and translations
Latin text
Sancti Spiritus adsit
nobis gratia
Quae corda nostra sibi
faciat habitaculum.
Expulsis inde cunctis
vitiis spiritabilis,
Spiritus alme
Illustrator cordium,
Horridas nostrae
mentis purga tenebras,
Amator sancte sensatorum,
semper cogitatuum.
Infunde unctionem tuam
clemens nostris sensibus.
Tu purificator omnium
flagitiorum Spiritus.
Purifica nostri oculum
interioris hominis.
Ut videri supremus
Genitor possit a nobis.
Mundi cordis quem soli
cernere possunt oculi.
Prophetas tu inspirasti,
ut praeconia Christi
praecinuissent inclyta.
Apostolos confortasti,
uti trophaeum Christi
per totum mundum veherent.
Quando machinam per verbum suum
fecit Deus coeli, terrae, marium.
Tu super aquas foturus eas,
numen tuum expandisti Spiritus.
Tu animabus vivificandis
aquas foecundas.
Tu aspirando das spiritales
esse homines.
Tu divisum per linguas
mundum et ritus adunasti Domine.
Idolatras ad cultum
Dei revocas Magistrorum optime.
Ergo nos supplicantes
tibi exaudi propitius sancte Spiritus
Sine quo preces omnes cassae creduntur
et indignae Dei auribus.
Tu qui omnium saeculorum sanctos,
Tui numinis, docuisti
instinctu amplectendo, Spiritus.
Ipse hodie Apostolos Christi
donans munere insolito
et cunctis inaudito seculis.