Aedes nostra sancta (John Mundy)

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• (Posted 2025-03-15) CPDL #84214:  Original pitch for STTBarB. Original note values:    
• (Posted 2025-03-15) CPDL #84213:  Original pitch for STTBarB. Note values halved:    
• (Posted 2025-03-15) CPDL #84213:  Transposed up a minor third for SAATB. Original note values:    
• (Posted 2014-04-09) CPDL #31631:  Transposed up a minor third for SAATB. Note values halved:    

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2025-03-15).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 251 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from Oxford, Christ Church Mus. 979-83. Missing Tenor part reconstructed by the editor. A critical commentary is appended to the scores.

General Information

Title: Aedes nostra sancta
Composer: John Mundy
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: STTBarB, or SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 32
Description: A setting of Isaiah 64, vv. 11–12.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Aedes nostra sancta et decus nostrum
ubi te laudarunt patres nostri,
igne conflagravit et omnia expetibilia nostra
redacta sunt in vastationem.

Num in his te continebis.
O Domine num dissimulabis
et tam vehementer nos affliges.