Isti sunt viri sancti (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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(Posted 2022-12-20) CPDL #71960:

• Original key (high chiavette):

• Transposed down a minor third:

- Alto in octave transposed violin clef

• Transposed down a fourth:

- Alto in octave transposed violin clef

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2022-12-20). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 108 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Palestrina Werke, 5. Band. Original note values.

(Posted 2012-07-16) CPDL #26777:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-16). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original key and note values.

General Information

Title: Isti sunt viri sancti
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feasts of Apostles and Evangelists.

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1564 in Motecta festorum totius anni liber primus, 4vv, no. 30
2nd published: 1854 in Musica Divina Vol. II (Carl Proske), p. 135
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Isti sunt viri sancti, quos elegit Dominus in charitate non ficta,
et dedit illis gloriam sempiternam:
quorum doctrina fulget Ecclesia,
ut sole luna.

The editions I could check - the 1585 edition and the Palestrina Werke edition - have the last line as: ut sol et luna i.e. as the sun and the moon.

English translation

These men are holy, whom the Lord hath chosen in love unfeigned,
and has given them glory everlasting:
By whose doctrine the Church is made resplendent,
even as the moon by the sun.