Veni in hortum meum (Peter Philips)

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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 Solomoncreate page

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: SacredMotet

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).

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Original text and translations

Latin.png 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.png 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))