Canticum Canticorum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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Canticum Canticorum / Song of Songs / Songs of Solomon

  • No14 - Vox dilecti mei - "The voice of my beloved"
  • No15 - Surge, propera amica mea - "Arise, my love"
  • No16 - Surge, amica mea, (speciosa mea et veni) - "Arise, my love, (my fair one, and come away)"
  • No17 - Dilectus meus mihi, (et ego illi) - "My belovid is mine, (and I am his)"
  • No18 - Surgam et circuibo civitatem - "I will rise and go about the city"
  • No19 - Adiuro vos (filiae Jerusalem) - "I charge you, (O ye daughters of Jerusalem)"
  • No20 - Caput eius (aurum optimum) - "His head (is as the finest gold)"
  • No21 - Dilectus meus descendit (in hortum suum) - "My beloved is gone down (into his garden)"
  • No22 - Pulchra es, amica mea - "Thou art beautiful, O my love"
  • No23 - Quae est ista (quae progreditur quasi) - "Who is she (that cometh like the dawn)"
  • No24 - Descendi in hortum nucum - "I went down into the garden of nuts"
  • No25 - Quam pulchri sunt (gressus tui in calceamentis) - "How graceful are (your feet in sandals)"
  • No26 - Duo ubera tua (sicut duo hinnuli) - "Thy two breasts are like two young roes"
  • No27 - Quam pulchra es et quam decora - "How fair and pleasant you are"
  • No28 - Guttur tuum sicut (vinum optimum) - "Thy throat is like (the best wine)"
  • No29 - Veni, dilecte mi, (egrediamur in agrum) - "Come, my beloved, (let us go forth into the fields)"

General Information

Title: Songs of Solomon - 29 Settings by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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

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


Description: The Song of Songs (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot (scrolls). It is also known as the Song of Solomon or as Canticles, the latter from the shortened and anglicized Vulgate title Canticum Canticorum, "Song of Songs" in Latin. It is known as Aisma in the Septuagint, which is short for ῏Αισμα ᾀσμάτων, Aisma aismatôn, "Song of Songs" in Greek.

The Song of Songs is thought by some to be a allegorical representation of the relationship of God and Israel as husband and wife. Literally, however, the main characters of the Song are simply a woman and a man, and the poem suggests movement from courtship to consummation. It is one of the shortest books in the Bible, consisting of only 117 verses. According to Ashkenazi tradition, it is read on the Sabbath that falls during the intermediate days of Passover. In the Sephardi Jewish community it is recited every Friday night. (Above is the brief wikipedia article - Use link below to see full article.)


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