Canticum Canticorum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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Canticum Canticorum / Song of Songs / Songs of Solomon

• No1 - Osculetur me (osculo oris sui) - "Let him kiss me (with the kiss of his mouth)"

• No2 - Trahe me post te - "Draw me after you"

• No3 - Nigra sum sed formosa - "I am black* but comely" ( * - darkly tanned )

• No4 - Vineam meam (non costodivi) - "My vineyard (I have not kept)"

• No5 - Si ignoras te - "If you do not know"

• No6 - Pulchrae sunt genuae tuae - "Thy cheeks are beautiful"

• No7 - Fasciculus myrrhae (dilectus meus mihi) - "A bundle of myrrh (is my beloved to me)"

• No8 - Ecce tu pulcher es - "Behold thou art fair"

• No9 - Tota pulchra es - "You are altogether beautiful"

• No10 - Vulnerasti cor meum - "You have ravished my heart"

• No11 - Sicut lilium inter spinas - "As the lily among thorns"

• No12 - Introduxit me rex (in cellam vinariam) - "He brought me (into the cellar of wine)"

• No13 - Laeva eius (sub capite meo) - "His left hand (is under my head)"

• No14 - Vox dilecti mei - "The voice of my beloved"

• No15 - Surge, propera amica mea - "Arise, my love"

• No16 - Surge, amica mea, (speciosa mea et veni) - "Arise, my love, (my fair one, and come away)"

• No17 - Dilectus meus mihi, (et ego illi) - "My belovid is mine, (and I am his)"

• No18 - Surgam et circuibo civitatem - "I will rise and go about the city"

• No19 - Adiuro vos (filiae Jerusalem) - "I charge you, (O ye daughters of Jerusalem)"

• No20 - Caput eius (aurum optimum) - "His head (is as the finest gold)"

• No21 - Dilectus meus descendit (in hortum suum) - "My beloved is gone down (into his garden)"

• No22 - Pulchra es, amica mea - "Thou art beautiful, O my love"

• No23 - Quae est ista (quae progreditur quasi) - "Who is she (that cometh like the dawn)"

• No24 - Descendi in hortum nucum - "I went down into the garden of nuts"

• No25 - Quam pulchri sunt (gressus tui in calceamentis) - "How graceful are (your feet in sandals)"

• No26 - Duo ubera tua (sicut duo hinnuli) - "Thy two breasts are like two young roes"

• No27 - Quam pulchra es et quam decora - "How fair and pleasant you are"

• No28 - Guttur tuum sicut (vinum optimum) - "Thy throat is like (the best wine)"

• No29 - Veni, dilecte mi, (egrediamur in agrum) - "Come, my beloved, (let us go forth into the fields)"
  

General Information

Title: Songs of Solomon - 29 Songs set to music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motets

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Palestrina Werke, vol. 4

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External websites:

• Texts of all the "Songs of Solomon" in English.