Sheet music

Original

A solis ortus cardine. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. A cappella. Sacred , Motet , Hymn Meter. 88. 88. L.M. Language. Latin. SATB.

Translation

A solis ortus cardine. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. A cappella. Sacred , Motet , Hymn Meter. 88. 88. L.M. Language. Latin. SATB.

Original

Palestrina follows a common practice of his time by setting only odd-numbered stanzas. four of them. of the Gregorian chant Mode 3 hymn text, it being understood that the even-numbered stanzas would be chanted. and the first stanza chanted as an introduction. It is interesting to note that the hymn text, by Caelius Sedulis. 5th-century. has the peculiar feature that the stanzas begin with successive letters of the alphabet. A , Beatus , Castae , Domus , Enixa , Foeno , Gaudet , etc.

Translation

Palestrina follows a common practice of his time by setting only odd-numbered stanzas. four of them. of the Gregorian chant Mode 3 hymn text, it being understood that the even-numbered stanzas would be chanted. and the first stanza chanted as an introduction. It is interesting to note that the hymn text, by Caelius Sedulis. 5th-century. has the peculiar feature that the stanzas begin with successive letters of the alphabet. A , Beatus , Castae , Domus , Enixa , Foeno , Gaudet , etc.