Animam meam dilectam (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

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• CPDL #08244:  PDF, PS, MIDI & LilyPond files

Editor: Nancho Alvarez (submitted 2004-10-19).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 95 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: listed under 'Oficio de Semana Santa' (Good Friday). Full score and individual parts available as midi files.

• CPDL #05682:  PDF, MIDI & NoteWorthy Composer files

Editor: Marco-cipoo.net (submitted 2003-10-12).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: listed alphabetically by composer

• CPDL #02395:  Finale 2001

Editor: Miguel Astor (submitted 2001-03-27).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 95 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Finale file is zipped.

General Information

Title: Animam meam dilectam
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: No. 9 of Tenebrae Responsories, for Good Friday

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Animam meam dilectam tradidi in manus iniquorum,
et facta est mihi haereditas mea sicut leo in silva

Dedit contra me voces adversaries dicens;
congregamini et properate ad devorandum illum;

Posuerunt me in deserto solitudinis el luxit super me omnis terrae,
quia non est inventus qui me agnosceret, et faceret bene.

Insurexerunt in me viri absque misericordia, et non pepercerunt animae meae.

English translation

I delivered my beloved soul
into the hands of the wicked,
and my possessions have become to me
like a lion in the forest.

My adversary spoke out against me saying:
Come together and make haste to devour him.

They placed me in a solitary desert,
and all the earth mourned for me;
because nobody could be found who would claim me
and be kind to me.

Men without mercy rose up against me,
and they spared not my soul.