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O gemma clarissima (Willaert)

Price range: £1.25 through £5.60

Downloadable files available:
  • Full vocal score
  • Keyboard reduction
  • 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.

We sell these scores with a licence to print the number of copies you need for your choir.

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Description

Source: Bologna, Biblioteca della musica, MS. Q19

Transposition: original pitch.

Difficulty: moderate.

Length: 02:30 mins.

Editors/copyright: Laurie Stras © 2019.

Perusal score: Watermarked. Please click here.

Listen:
Musica Secreta live, 3 November 2017, Brighton Early Music Festival.

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Text and translation

O gemma clarissima
Catharina virgo sanctissima
Lilium mundissimum
Et mulierum speculum
Tuis precamur meritis
Coeli fruamur gaudiis.

O brightest jewel,
Catherine, most holy virgin,
Purest lily and mirror of women,
We pray that by your merits
We might delight in the joys of Heaven.