Domine tu jurasti
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    This motet by the above name is gorgeous (here is a midi) but I couldn't make heads or tails of the text. I emailed Kerry McCarthy who says it is, strangely, from "one of the homilies of (pseudo-)Chrysostom" and no one knows how it landed on his desk!

    I sure would like to sing it. But first I need a translation.
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,611
    "Though the text of this motet is found neither in scripture or liturgy, it speaks eloquently of the exile mood of Lent:
    "Lord, remember the covenant you made with our fathers and deliver us from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt."

    A note on an 18th century manuscript copy indicates, “this piece, in the opinion of Mr. Byrd himself, is the best he ever composed.” The musical rhetoric is shot through with unusual harmonic progressions born out of the opening motive that circles chromatically above and below the keynote."

    From: http://www.ndceditions.com/Detail/NDC056.html
  • G
    Posts: 1,400
    Substitute some liturgical words?

    (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
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