Veni dilecta mea (Nicolas Gombert)

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• (Posted 2019-02-22)  CPDL #53362: 

Original key (high chiavette):     (MIDI)  

Transposed down a fourth:   (MIDI)  

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2019-02-22).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 103 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the 1552 Gardano edition. Original note values.

General Information

Title: Veni dilecta mea
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Lyricist:

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

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1552 in Motectorum quinque vocum liber secundus, Venice, Edition 2, no. 19
Description: A motet in honour of the Virgin Mary in two-parts. The Tenor sings the cantus firmus: Sancta Maria ora pro nobis in both parts, whereas the other 4 voices sing words of the Song of Songs.
I. Veni dilecta mea
II. Nigra sum sed formosa

Original text and translations

Latin text

Veni dilecta mea, et ponam in te thronum meum,
quia concupivit rex speciem tuam.
Cantus firmus: Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.

Nigra sum sed formosa, filia Jerusalem,
ideo dilexit me rex et introduxit me in cubiculum suum.
Cantus firmus: Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.