Osculetur me (Pierre de Manchicourt)
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- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2019-12-21). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 428 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Transposed one tone lower (for SSATBB), otherwise identical to CPDL #55882 below. Revised edition uploaded 20 March 2022.
- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2019-11-12). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 422 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: At original notated pitch (for SSATTB or SSATBarB). Original note values retained. Transcribed and edited from the original published source as listed below. Revised edition uploaded 20 March 2022.
General Information
Title: Osculetur me, osculo oris sui (2.p. Trahe me post te)
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt
Source of text: Song of Songs 1:1–3, 4:7 & 11
Number of voices: 6vv Voicings: SSATBB or SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Antiphon for the Nativity of the BVM
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1554 in Phalèse, Cantionum sacrarum liber 5 (Pierre de Manchicourt), no. 12
Description: This is one of seven settings of text from the Song of Songs (Canticum Canticorum) among Manchicourt's output of more than seventy motets. He has set the Tenor part as a cantus firmus, using the text of Tota pulchra es, amica mea set to the melody of a popular German song Kein Adler in der Welt.
Original text and translations
Latin text Sponsa: |
English translation Bride: |
Original text and translations may be found at Osculetur me.