Hodie Christus natus est / Today Christ is born

Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621) [ The Netherlands ]

Edition
Published by Chester Music Ltd. [Great Britain] , 1989 ; in Christmas & Advent motets for 5 voices , ; in Twelfth Chester book of motets (45 p.)
Ref. : CH55262  (6 p.) , "Chester book of motets"
Editor or author of the restitution: Petti, Anthony G.
Type of material: Score with keyboard for rehearsal only
ISMN/ISBN : 0-7119-2060-5
 
Description
Text in: Latin
Epoque: 16 ; 17th century
Genre-Style-Form: Motet ; Sacred ; Antiphon
Type of Choir: SSATB  (5 mixed voices )
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5): 3
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E): C
Tonality: B flat major
Duration: 2.5 min.
Liturgical Use: Christmas ; Magnificat
Musicological Sources: No. 13 in Cantiones sacrae cum basso continuo ad organum, Pierre Phalèse, Antwerp, 1619
Source of text: Antiphon, Magnificat, Christmas