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Messa sopra Recordare Virgo Mater – Credo (anon, Biffoli-Sostegni)

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Downloadable files available:
  • Full vocal score
  • Keyboard reduction
  • Bass viol part
  • Audio files with pitch and count-in, in equal temperament and quarter-comma meantone

Voice ranges as in thumbnail. More details, perusal score, and audio sample below.

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Description

Source: Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, Brussels, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal, MS 27766

Transposition: none.

Difficulty: hard.

Length: 05:49 mins.

Editor/copyright: Laurie Stras © 2023.

Perusal score: Watermarked. Please click here.

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Text and translation

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem
omnipotentem, factorem cæli et terræ,
visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Et in
unum Dominum, Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre
natum ante omnia sæcula. Deum de
Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de
Deo vero, genitum, non factum,
consubstantialem Patri: per quem omnia
facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines et
propter nostram salute descendit de
cœlis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto
ex Maria virgine, et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio
Pilato; passus et sepultus est, et resurrexit
tertia die, secundum Scripturas, et
ascendit in cœlum, sedet ad dexteram
Patris. Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
judicare vivos et mortuos, cujus regni
non erit finis. Et in Spiritum Sanctum,
Dominum et vivificantem: qui ex Patre
Filioque procedit. Qui cum Patre et Filio
simul adoratur et conglorificatur: qui
locutus est per prophetas. Et unam,
sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam
Ecclesiam. Confiteor unum baptisma in
remissionem peccatorum. Et exspecto
resurrectionem mortuorum,
et vitam venturi sæculi. Amen.

[Translation: Roman Missal]
I believe in one God, the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth, of all things
visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord
Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of
God, born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light, true
God from true God, begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father; through
him all things were made. For us men
and for our salvation he came down from
heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was
incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and
became man. For our sake he was
crucified under Pontius Pilate, he
suffered death and was buried, and rose
again on the third day in accordance
with the Scriptures. He ascended into
heaven and is seated at the right hand of
the Father. He will come again in glory to
judge the living and the dead and his
kingdom will have no end. I believe in
the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the
Son, who with the Father and the Son is
adored and glorified, who has spoken
through the prophets. I believe in one,
holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I
confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of
sins and I look forward to the
resurrection of the dead and the life of
the world to come. Amen.