Tota pulchra es - Quam pulchrae sunt (Guillaume Le Heurteur)

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• (Posted 2024-11-17)  CPDL #82769:       

Editor: Bert Schreuder (submitted 2024-11-17).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 174 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original pitch, note values halved. Transcribed from “Guillermi le Heurteur, Operum musicalium liber primus”, published by Attaingnant in 1545, which contains 17 motets by Le Heurteur.

General Information

Title: Tota pulchra es - Quam pulchrae sunt
Composer: Guillaume Le Heurteur
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1545 in Operum musicalium liber primus
Description: The text is a hodgepodge of several fragments taken from the Song of songs, with considerable liberties, also concerning the gender of the speaker.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Tota pulchra es, amica mea.

Latin text Tota pulchra es, amica mea, et macula non est in te. Caput tuum aurum optimum, comae tuae sicut elatae palmarum. Quam pulchrae sunt genae tuae, oculi tui sicut columbae super rivulos aquarium. Favus distillans labia tua, sponsa, mel et lac sub lingua tua. Quam pulchrae sunt mammae tuae, soror mea, sponsa; manus tuae tornatiles, venter tuus eburneus, species tua ut Libani. Aperi mihi soror mea, amica mea, columba mea, immaculata mea. Aperi mihi, quia amore langueo.

English text You are completely beautiful, my love, and there is no flaw in you. Your head is as the finest gold, your hair is like the palm trees. How beautiful are your cheeks, your eyes like doves on the streams of water. Honey drips from your lips, my bride, honey and milk under your tongue. How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride; your hands are well-formed, your belly is as ivory. Your appearance is like that of Lebanon. Open to me my sister, my friend, my dove, my immaculate. Open to me, for I am sick of love.