Salve crux sancta, arbor digna (Adrian Willaert)
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- Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2019-03-19). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 402 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2019-03-16). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 402 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Salve crux sancta, arbor digna
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1534 in Motettorum, Book 1 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 24
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Prima Pars
Salve crux sancta, arbor digna
cujus robur pretiosum
mundi refert talentum,
ut hostis per lignum victor
ligno revinceretur
quoque exortus mortis
primis erat terrigenis
paradiso propulsis.
Secunda Pars
Causa etiam vitae foret cunctis
Christi morte vere vivificatis ,
horrificum tu es semper signum
inimicis crux Sarracenis,
quam mors pavet infernusque tumet,
quae christot suos reconsignat
cui laus sit in aevum.