Erravi (Francisco Valls)

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Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (added 2006-09-04).   Score information: A4, 1 pages, 39 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Erravi
Composer: Francisco Valls

Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: Continuo
Published: 1742

Description: From Mapa Armonico Practico, facsimile, including this score, published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. The Composer explains that the purpose of the composition is "para expresar el sentido de la letra". This may have been a mistake in transcription. He may have meant "para expresar el sentido del error", i.e. to express the feeling of having erred.

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Original text and translations

Bible (Vulgate) Psalm 118 verse 176

Image:Latin.png Latin text

Erravi sicut ovis quae periit

Image:English.png English translation

I have gone astray as the sheep that is lost.

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