Exsultate Deo - Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Exsultate Deo.
Sung by 'Voices of Ascension'

[andyhammers]

La musica che si canta in paradiso deve assomigliare a questa...sono sicuro !!!

[gregstorkwilson]

I forgot I knew this song. After 40 years I can still sing the soprano line note for note. Thank you for this!

[lizb]

HAPPY memories of my best loved Palestrina motet, learned from a fabulous choir master and musician.
I've been singing this for over 50 years, but no longer sing in choir now due to ill health. I miss it dreadfully and hearing/ seeing this today, nearly had me in tears. But I lived and loved it just the same.

[margielyons]

Palestrina at his best. I love the super lively tempo and sheer joy of this piece. This choir gives full glory to the composer's work and makes a splendid renaissance motet come to life in these latter times.

[davidmonson]

This is my go-to piece whenever I need to lift my spirits; it always works. "Siccut Cervus" simply transports me into a sublime musical reality.

[HighWideandHandsome]

I just found out that we're singing this in my university choir this semester. As an avid Palestrina fan, I'm overjoyed!

[Wlfric]

THIS!!! OMG!! 9th grade Choir. Best in Class. 20 or so years later I forgot the song, the words, everything. It is the doom that men shall forget is a true saying. Thank you for this. I remember it all now.

[bahrss]

I like the colourfullness of the "tuba" musical passages

[gavinf.]

Why is this easier to sing than most of the music in modern churches? It is more beautiful and simply easier to sing. You have to love Palestrina.

[jorgelopez-prdr]

No wonder it was engraved in his epitaph " The Prince of Music".

[IrmandadeAlmatica]

🧕👄Palestrina was a Renaissance composer. All his production was for vocal choirs, however, according to the customs of the time, the voices could be duplicated by instruments.🌞🌜🌟👼🌻🦋🌺🌿🎶🎹🎻😀😀👋👋

[musicaenlaniebla]

I know that "Missa Papae Marcelli" (Pope Macellus Mass) is considered the masterwork of Palestrina. Besides, many motets are well-known: "Sicut cervus", "Dies sanctificatus", "Veni Sponsa Christi", "Tu es Petrus", "O Magnum Mysterium", "O bone Iesu", "Nunc dimittis", etc. Of course, this space is too short for including many more Palestrina's works. Greetings from Lima, Perú.

[ProfJoseph]

Can you please tell me what program you use to scroll the scores? I'm despirate...

[andrewscollick]

Motet Translations
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: "Exsultate Deo"


Psalm 81:1-4


Exsultate Deo adjutori nostro;
jubilate Deo Jacob.
Sumite psalmum, et date tympanum; psalterium jucundum cum cithara.
Buccinate in neomenia tuba,
in insigni die solemnitatis vestræ.


Sing joyfully to God our strength;
sing loud unto the God of Jacob!
Take the song, bring forth the timbrel,
the pleasant harp, and the viol.
Blow the trumpet in the new moon,
at the time appointed for our feast day.

[Kachavashka]

Too much of a good thing is a bad thing...
Unless it's Palestrina, of course!

[jvercouillie]

It is the Nth time I listen to it, and I still think that it is a very great piece of Palestrina. Which of his works is considered as his masterpiece? Does anyone know?

[aylencary]

someone knows what year is the song and origin of the country?

[pearlalvarez]

My choir still has not mastered this wonderful piece....SO FRUSTRATING....
I cant wait till it clicks

[MattWeisherComposer]

The title should be "Exultate Deo." There is no "s, " at least not in the version that Palestrina used.

[unas]

Both are possible; since the x in ex is a product of k-s-assimilation, the s may be assimilated into the x, rendering Exultet, as it can often be found in later stages of Latin.