This Confitebor tibi is an old Responsorium. There are about 138 Responsoria de Officium Defunctorum, Responds from Office of the Dead known and used during centuries in the Office of the Dead. They are all well ordered, this is number 118. But Josquin Baston used the belonging Versicle ‘Et eripuisti’ number 90 too. The use of all Responds vary per region and they were used all over. Europe. This Respond is in use in Otto of Riedenburg’s Pontifical-ordinal, but be aware these series are absolutely exceptional and used in the German and Austrian region in which Josquin Baston worked. This motet is written by Baston for five parts and it was originally published by Scotto and by Gardano, both printers in Venice in 1549 in Primo libro de motetti a cinque voci da diversi eccellentissimi musici composti et non piu stampati, novamente posti in luce, et con somma diligentia coretti. Come a' cantanti sarcra 2. manifesto. - Venezia, G. Scotto, 1549. 5 vol. and Il terzo libro di motetti a cinque voci di Cipriano de Rore, et de altri excellentissimi musici, novamente ristampato, con una bona gionta de motetti novi. - Venezia, A. Gardane, 1549. 5 vol.
Text: Confitebor tibi Domine
R. Confitebor tibi Domine Deus in toto corde meo:
et honorificabo nomen tuum in aeternum,
quia misericordia tua domine magna est super me.
V. Et eruisti animam meam ex inferno inferiorium
Translation:
R. I will praise thee, O lord, with my whole heart:
and I will glorify thy name for evermore,
for great is Thy mercy toward me.
V and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.