Jesu rex admirabilis / Jesus, wonderful king

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi (1525?-1594) [ Italy ]

Text by Bernard de Clairvaux (1090-1153) [France]
Edition
Published by Chester Music Ltd. [Great Britain] , 1990 ; in Motets for 3 voices , ; in The seventh Chester book of motets (45 p.)
Ref. : CH55222  (1 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 : 0711938199
 
Description
Text in: Latin
Epoque: 16th century  (1550-1599)
Genre-Style-Form: Motet ; Sacred ; Hymn (sacred) ; Renaissance
Type of Choir: ATBar OR BarBB OR SAT OR SSA OR TBarB OR TTB  (3 men OR mixed OR women voices )
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5): 2
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E): A
Tonality: ionian ; modal ; dorian ; aeolian
Duration: 1.0 min.
Liturgical Use: Christ the King ; Christmas ; Easter ; Ascension
Number of verses: 2
Musicological Sources: Diletto spirituale, Rome, 1586 ; Scored for SSA; "Table of suggested downward transpositions" (SAT, ATBar, TTB, TBarB, BarBB) included on p. 45.
Source of text: Hymn for matins of Holy Name
 

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