Obrecht's Parce Domine
  • PaixGioiaAmorPaixGioiaAmor
    Posts: 1,473
    Can anyone tell me where to find an english translation for this motet?

    The text is not the same as that of the Parce Domine chant.

    I have an edition from GIA with the original latin as well as a translation by Richard Proulx, meant for singing the motet in English if one so desires. But usually when they try to make the motet singable in English, the translation loses a lot.
  • Simon
    Posts: 158
    I'll give it a go. Other suggestions welcome.

    Parce, Domine, populo tuo, quia pius es et misericors.
    Exaudi nos in aeternum, Domine.

    Spare, o Lord, your people. For thou are just and merciful. Hear us, Lord, forever.
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    Most everyone in our schola agrees that this is the best piece we've sung in years and years. Now looking for more more more Obrecht.
  • Simon
    Posts: 158
    Just thought of another source. If you have access somehow (I don't): the New Obrecht Edition (editor. Ch. Maas) includes English translations for all of Obrecht's works. Volume XVI includes the motet Parce Domine.
  • mahrt
    Posts: 517
    Simon: Thou are is ungrammatical, it should be thou art.
  • PaixGioiaAmorPaixGioiaAmor
    Posts: 1,473
    Thank you Simon.
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