BH1001, Guillaume Du Fay: Motets - Blue Heron

Una tibi trinitas vera deus unitas
det celi fulgorem,
quem linea bonitas, argentea castitas,
secernit in morem. Amen.
contratenor
Bella canunt gentes, querimur, pater optime, tempus;
expediet multos, si cupis, una dies.
Nummus et hora fluunt magnumque iter orbis agendum nec suus
in toto noscitur orbe deus. Amen.
tenor i
Gabriel.
tenor ii
Ecce nomen domini.
Apostolo glorioso, Rite majorem, and Ecclesie militantis emended and translated by Leofranc Holford-Strevens in “Du Fay the poet?
Problems in the texts of his motets,” Early Music History xvi (1997): 97-165. Used with permission of the author. All other translations
© 2007 by Scott Metcalfe.
Recorded September 11-19, 2006, at the Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Engineering & mastering: Joel Gordon
Producers: Eric Milnes & Scott Metcalfe
Editing: Eric Milnes & Joel Gordon
Cover photo: © John Grant, Red and white dahlia
Group photos: Liz Linder (www.lizlinder.com)
Graphic design: Pete Goldlust
© 2007 Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. All rights reserved. Third printing © 2011.
God, the One Trinity, the true Unity,
grant thee the blaze of heaven,
whom linen goodness and silver chastity
regularly distinguish. Amen.
The nations sing of wars: we complain, O best of fathers, of
our time. One day will dispatch many, if thou desire.
Money and time are pouring away, and the great journey must
be made over the earth, but nowhere in the whole world is its
God known. Amen.
Gabriel.
Behold the name of the Lord.
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