- Year of composition: 1654 (according to the manuscript's title page in the collections of the Uppsala University Library
- Work category: Voices and other instruments
- Text author: Texts from chapter 7 and 3 from the Book of Revelation (New Testament)
- Duration: 4 min
- Detailed duration: 4'28 (according to Musica Sveciae MSCD 303)
Instrumentation
cont
Solo voices/choir
tenor I + II
Examples of printed editions
Monumenta Musicae Svecicae: 5. Musica Svecica Saeculi XVII: 2-4. Drei Vokalwerke der schwedischen Grossmachtepoche (Edited by Carl-Allan Moberg & Jan Olof Rudén), Edition Reimers ER 107010 (1968)
Location for score and part material
Manuscript can be found in the Uppsala University Library (Vok. mus. i. hs. 140)
Description of work
(no time signature) D minor - G major alla breve
Links
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Work comment
According to a more recent relative of Olof Rudbeck's the song was probably composed for the funeral in 1654 of the Lord High Chancellor of Sweden Axel Oxenstierna.
Libretto/text
Hoo [sic] hoo äro thenne som uthi the hwita kläder klädde äro,
och hwadan äro the komne, och hwadan äro the komne