O memoriale mortis (Francisco Valls)
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CPDL #12987:
Sibelius 2
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (added 2006-11-03). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 50 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The second and third verses of the hymn have been added editorially (in italics)
General Information
Title: O memoriale mortis
Composer: Francisco Valls
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSAT
Genre: Sacred, Hymns
Language: Latin
Instruments: Continuo
Published: 1742
Description: From "Mapa Armonico Practico". Facsimile manuscript, including this score published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Only the first verse of the hymn appears in the manuscript. It may have been intended that the second and third verses should also be sung, followed possibly by an "Amen".
The composer introduces the score with the following comment (spelling modernised): "En el siguiente ejemplo se verá ajustado, con diferente letra, y como se ha de sacar, y volver a la cuerda de tono".
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Original text and translations
Extract of St. Thomas Aquinas' (1225-1274) hymn "Adoro Te devote", composed in honour of the Blessed Sacrament.
Latin text
O memoriale mortis Domini!
panis vivus, vitam praestans homini!
praesta meae menti de te vivere
et te illi semper dulce sapere.
Pie pellicane, Iesu Domine,
me immundum munda tuo sanguine;
cuius una stilla salvum facere
totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.
Te cum revelata cernam facie,
visu tandem laetus tuae gloriae;
Patri, tibi laudes et Spiritui,
dicam beatorum iunctus coetui.
Amen.
English translation
O memorial of my Saviour dying,
Living Bread, that gives life to man;
make my soul, its life from Thee supplying,
taste Thy sweetness, as on earth it can.
Deign, O Jesus, Pelican of heaven,
me, a sinner, in Thy Blood to lave,
to a single drop of which is given
all the world from all its sin to save.
Contemplating, Lord, Thy hidden presence,
grant me what I thirst for and implore,
in the revelation of Thy essence
to behold Thy glory evermore.
Amen.