Audite caeli (Ottavio Catalani)

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(Posted 2020-07-05) CPDL #59538:

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2020-07-05). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 122 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition.

General Information

Title: Audite cœli
Composer: Ottavio Catalani
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: ST
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1616 in Selectae cantiones, no. 8
Description: A Concertato Motet for Soprano and Tenor. The lyrics are from the beginning of the Canticum magnum Moysis, Deuteronomium 32:1-3a.

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Original text and translations

Versio Vulgata: Deuteronomium 32:1-3a.

Latin text

Audite, caeli, quae loquor:
audiat terra verba oris mei.
2 Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea,
fluat ut ros eloquium meum,
quasi imber super herbam,
et quasi stillae super gramina.
3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo:

Douay-Rheims Bible:

English translation

Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak,
let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain,
let my speech distil as the dew,
as a shower upon the herb,
and as drops upon the grass.
3 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: