Sheet music

Original

Libera nos, salva nos. John Sheppard. A cappella. Sacred , Motet. Language. Latin. SSAATTB or AATTBarBarB.

Translation

Libera nos, salva nos. John Sheppard. A cappella. Sacred , Motet. Language. Latin. SSAATTB or AATTBarBarB.

Original

Sheppard was Informator Choristorum of Magdalen College, Oxford in the 1640s. In the college statutes, Magdalen's founder, William Waynflete, ordained that college members should recite the antiphon to the Trinity each morning and night, and Sheppard's pair of settings of Libera nos, salva nos appear to have been written for this purpose, probably for use at the end of compline, framing the versicles and response Benedicamus Patrem. The cantus firmus of the second setting is a faburden of the plainchant used in the first setting. For more details, see David Wulstan's notes to The Clerks of Oxenford's recording, Proudsound PROU CD126.

Translation

Sheppard was Informator Choristorum of Magdalen College, Oxford in the 1640s. In the college statutes, Magdalen's founder, William Waynflete, ordained that college members should recite the antiphon to the Trinity each morning and night, and Sheppard's pair of settings of Libera nos, salva nos appear to have been written for this purpose, probably for use at the end of compline, framing the versicles and response Benedicamus Patrem. The cantus firmus of the second setting is a faburden of the plainchant used in the first setting. For more details, see David Wulstan's notes to The Clerks of Oxenford's recording, Proudsound PROU CD126.