Caligaverunt oculi mei (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
From ChoralWiki
Music files (4 editions available)
= BROKEN LINK 
= PDF FILE 
= MIDI FILE 
= POSTSCRIPT FILE Music Program = NOTATION FILE
= EXTERNAL SITE (DISCLAIMER) 
= EXTERNAL PDF FILE 
= EXTERNAL MIDI FILE 
= SCORE ERROR 
= HELP- CPDL #8247: PDF, PS, MIDI & LilyPond files
- Editor: Nancho Alvarez (added 2004-10-19). Score information: A4 Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed under 'Oficio de Semana Santa' (Good Friday). Full score and individual parts available as midi files.
- CPDL #6224: Sibelius 2
- Editor: Brian Marble (added 2003-12-20). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 84 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
- CPDL #1232: Encore
- Editor: Unknown (added 2000-08-22). Score information: 84 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Encore file is zipped.
- CPDL #1266: Finale 2000
- Editor: Claudio Macchi (added 2000-08-24). Score information: 68 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Finale file is zipped.
General Information
Title: Caligaverunt oculi mei
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: No. 12 of Tenebrae Responsories, for Good Friday.
This moving work forms one of several responsories for Tenebrae. Like the other reponsories, this includes a verse, the response, a verse and another response. The response features a low setting for Altos, Tenors and Basses, and suprises the listener with a piercing treble/soprano note on the words "Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus". Many people liken this to a cry of pain, as the words translate to "If there is any sorrow like my sorrow".
External websites:
Original text and translations
Latin text
Caligaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo: quia elongatus est a me, qui consolabatur me: Videte, omnes populi, si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
V: O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, attendite, et videte si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus
English translation
My eyes are darkened by my tears: For He is far from me that conforted Me: See, O all ye people, if there be a sorrow like unto My sorrow
V. O all ye that pass by, behold and see if there be a sorrow like unto My sorrow
