Quae est ista (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
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General Information
Title: Quae est ista
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Palestrina Werke, vol. 4
Description: Number 23 of '"Canticum Canticorum" / Song of Songs / Songs of Solomon' - Chapter 6 - Verse 9.
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Original text and translations
Song of Solomon 6:10
Latin text
- Quae est ista quae progreditur
- quasi aurora consurgens,
- pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol,
- terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata ?
English translation
- Who is she that cometh forth
- as the morning rising,
- fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
- terrible as an army set in array ?
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
- Who is she that cometh like the dawn,
- fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
- terrible as an army prepared for battle?
French translation
by Gabriel Thoorens
- Qui est celle-ci qui s'avance comme l'aube naissante,
- Belle comme la Lune, Resplendissante comme le Soleil,
- Terrible comme un armée rangée en ordre de bataille.
