Agnifer aeterna (Geert van Turnhout)

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• (Posted 2025-10-18)  CPDL #87168:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-10-18).   Score information: A4, 16 pages, 145 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third. Source: Liber XIIII sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum, Susato, 1557.

General Information

Title: Agnifer aeterna
Composer: Geert van Turnhout
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1553 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum, liber 14 (Antwerp: Susato), no. 7
Description: Attributed to Gerardus or Gherardus by Susato.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Agnifer aeterna iuvenis dignissime vita,
ante Deum praeco, lucifer ante diem,
nam puerum supra puerilem
gratia sensum te tulit
ut fieres nuntius ante Deum.

Sic faveas nobis ut te veneramur oportet
nec precibus debet ulla repulsa dari.
Exorare fave miseris, pia vota secunda
voce oculis tibi supplicat atque manu.