Vineam meam non custodivi (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• CPDL #1978:   Finale 2000

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General Information

Title: Vineam meam non custodivi
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Source of text: Song of Solomon 1:6b–7

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

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

Description: Number 4 of 'Canticum Canticorum / Song of Songs / Songs of Solomon' - Chapter 1 - Verses 6 through 7.

External websites:

• Texts of all the "Songs of Solomon" in English.
• Wikipedia's article on the "Songs of Solomon".
• All of Palestrina's "Canticum Canticorum" can be found here.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Vineam meam non custodivi.

Indica mihi quem diligit anima mea,

ubi pascas, ubi cubes in meridie,

ne vagari incipiam post greges sodalium tuorum.

English translation

My vineyard I have not kept.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon,

lest I begin to wander after the flocks of your companions.