Dilectus meus mihi (Hieronymus Praetorius)

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• (Posted 2016-06-25)  CPDL #40163: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2016-06-25).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch (high chiavette) for SATB.SATB or transposed down a fourth for the same forces.

General Information

Title: Dilectus meus mihi
Composer: Hieronymus Praetorius
Lyricist: Song of Solomon ch.2 v. 16,17; ch.7v. 11,12^{create page}

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1618 in Cantiones variae, Hamburg, no. 16
    Manuscript 1592-1685 (copied 1627) in Löbau partbooks, no. 94
Description: A setting from the Song of Solomon published in Cantiones variae, Hamburg, 1618.

Original text and translations

Latin text Dilectus meus mihi et ego illi qui pascitur inter lilia. Donec aspiret dies et inclinentur umbrae, revertere ad me, dilecte veni. Egrediamur in agrum commoremur in villis. Mane surgamus, videamus si floruerunt mala punica: Ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.

English translation My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn to me, my beloved. Let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early; let us see if the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my breasts.