Veni in hortum meum (Peter Philips)

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• (Posted 2019-03-10)  CPDL #53515: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2019-03-10).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 92 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Edition offered at original pitch (high chiavette) for SSATTB or transposed down a fourth for the same forces.

General Information

Title: Veni in hortum meum
Composer: Peter Philips
Lyricist: Song of Solomon^{create page}

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1609 in Hortus musicalis...authore R.P. Michaele Herrerrio, Munich, Book 2, no. 27
Description: Very loosely based upon the Song of Solomon. This work is a sacred contrafact of 'Amor che voi ch'io facci' (1591).

Original text and translations

Latin text Veni in hortum meum, soror, o sponsa, et mala punicorum gusta fragantia, si qua desideras, revertere ad tuos. O Sunamitis, speciosa valde. (cf. Canticum Canticorum 5:1, 6:10-12)

English translation Come into my garden, o sister, my spouse, and the strongly scented pomegranates, as you had wished, will once more be yours. O Sunamite [Shulamite], intensely beautiful. (after Solomon's Song of Songs, 5:1, 6:10-12))