Ecce amica mea (Maistre Jhan)

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Editor: Michael Wendel (submitted 2006-02-18).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 157 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright © Michael Wendel 2005, This edition may be freely duplicated, distributed, performed or recorded for non-profit performance or use.
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General Information

Title: Ecce, amica mea
Composer: Cristóbal de Morales
Source of text: Song of Songs 2:8b-14, with minor alterations and insertions.

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1546

Description: No. 18 of 20 motets published in 1546 in Venice by Antonio Gardano. (facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich (4° Mus.pr. 42/3)). A Song of Songs motet to the Virgin Mary.

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Original text and translations

Insertions in the Vulgate text are italicised.

Latin.png Latin text

Prima pars
Ecce amica mea, columba mea,speciosa mea,formosa mea,

8b  venit saliens in montibus, transiliens colles.

9  Similis est dilecta mea capree hynuloque cervorum. En dilecta mea,formosa mea
stat post parietem nostrum respiciens per fenestras, prospiciens per cancellos.

10  En dilectus meus loquitur mihi: "Surge, amica mea, columba mea, formosa mea,
et veni.

11  Iam enim hiems transiit, imber abiit et recessit. Columba mea, veni.

Secunda Pars

12  Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra, tempus putationis advenit; vox turturis audita est in terra nostra,

13  ficus protulit grossos suos, vineae florentes dederunt odorem suum; surge, amica mea, propera, speciosa mea, et veni,

14  columba mea, in foraminibus petrae, in caverna maceriae. Ostende faciem tuam mihi, sonet vox tua in auribus meis; vox enim tua dulcis, et facies tua decora.

English.png English translation

Prima pars
Behold, O my love, my dove, my beautiful, my beautiful one

8b  She cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills.

9  My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold my beloved, my beautiful one,
standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

10  Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one,
and come.

11  For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. Come, my dove.

Secunda pars