Oratio Jeremiae (Gaspar van Weerbeke)

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• (Posted 2023-03-10)  CPDL #72989:         

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2023-03-10).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 130 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition. There are some errors in the printed source. The readings of the source are given in the footnotes. The "mensurstrichte" layout is used but the "barlines" between staves indicate rhythmical groupings similar to bars in modern notation. The underlay of the text mostly follows the underlay in the source.

General Information

Title: Oratio Jeremiae
Composer: Gaspar van Weerbeke
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Lamentation

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1506 in Lamentationum liber secundus (Petrucci), no. 16
Description: The sixth of six settings with texts from the laments of Jeremiah the Prophete. The text here is from the fifth chapter of the laments which also is called The Prayer of Jeremiah the Prophete. Liturgically the settings were for use as lessons in the Matins of Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy week. This setting would have been the last of the lessons from the laments on Holy Saturday.

Original text and translations

Latin text

  Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophete

Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis;
intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.

Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos,
domus nostræ ad extraneos.

Pupilli facti sumus absque patre,
matres nostræ quasi viduæ. (Laments 5: 1-3.)

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum.