Fuerunt mihi lachrimae (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)

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• (Posted 2023-11-16)  CPDL #77391:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2023-11-16).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 103 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Fuerunt mihi lachrimae
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: STTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1554 in Motetti del laberinto libro terzo (Scotto, Venice), no. 9
    2nd published: 1559 in Liber tertius cantionum sacrarum quatuor vocum (Phalèse, Louvain), no. 4
Description: Published by Scotto, Venice, 1554. Scotto's edition accidentally omits several bars of the Tenor part, which were supplied from Phalèse's edition of 1559.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Fuerunt mihi lachrimae meae panes die ac nocte
dum dicitur mihi per singulos dies
ubi es Deus tuus?

Quare tristis es anima mea
et quare conturbas me?
Spera in Deo quoniam adhuc confitebor illi
salutare vultus mei et Deus meus.