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Work Title: Nisi Dominus
Alternative Title: -
Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio
Opus/Catalogue Number: RV 608
I-Catalogue Number: IAV 590
Key: G minor
Year/Date of Composition: 1713-17 ca.
Language: Latin
Composer Time Period: Baroque
Piece Style: #Baroque
Instrumentation: #alto, #viola_d'amore, #strings, #continuo

Genre Categories: #Psalms; #Religious works; #Sacred cantatas; Cantatas; For voice, strings, continuo; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring string ensemble; Scores with #basso_continuo; For voices with strings; Latin language; For voice, organ (arr); For voices with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring the organ (arr); For voice, keyboard (arr); Scores featuring keyboard soloists (arr)
The text is divided into five verses. The first two express the notion that "without God, all is in vain", popularly summarised in Latin in the motto Nisi Dominus Frustra. The remaining three verses describe progeny as God's blessing.