O mi fili (Giovanni Battista Ala)
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- Editor: Roberto Rilievi (submitted 2022-01-28). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 315 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: O mi fili
Composer: Giovanni Battista Ala
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: ST
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: 1618 in Primo libro di concerti ecclesiastici, no. 10
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Original text and translations
Latin text
O mi fili, mea vita,
Iesu Christe amate.
Te patiente vides cor meum
crudelissime torqueri,
et oculos meos liquescere
in rivulos aquarum,
o lumen gloriae,
ut obscuraris ut manas sanguine, fili amate?
Ut te ostendis fervidum amantem?
Vere crudi Iudaei qui separare te a matre volunt,
et tu cur me relinquis,
in hac misera vita sine vita?