Adiuro vos (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• CPDL #17245: Finale 2006

Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2008-06-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 80 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #2678: Finale 2000

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2001-05-11).   Score information: 96 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Adiuro vos
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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

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

Description: Number 19 of '"Canticum Canticorum" / Song of Songs / Songs of Solomon' - Chapter 5 - Verse 8 through 10.

External websites:

• Texts of all the "Songs of Solomon" in English.
• Wikipedia's article on the "Songs of Solomon".

Original text and translations

Song of Solomon 5:8–10

Latin text

Adiuro vos filiae Jerusalem,

si inveneritis dilectum meum,

ut nuntietis ei, quia amore langueo.

Qualis est dilectus tuus ex dilecto,

o pulcherrima mulierum,

quia sic adiurasti nos?

Dilectus meus candidus et rubicundus;

electus ex milibus.

English translation
by Mick Swithinbank

(Bride:)

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,

if ye find my beloved,

that ye tell him that I languish with love.

(Daughters of Jerusalem:)

What is thy beloved more than another,

O thou most beautiful of women,

that thou so chargest us?

(Bride:)

My beloved is white and ruddy,

one chosen from thousands.