Sitivit anima mea (Manuel Cardoso)

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• (Posted 2020-07-16)  CPDL #59764:       

Editor: David Allinson (submitted 2020-07-16).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 132 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: There is some contention over the text: some people believe 'ad Deum fortem' should read 'ad Deum foNtem'. Both make sense. The Vulgate gives 'fortem'. There is a relevant discussion here: https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/17254/text-change-/p1

General Information

Title: Sitivit Anima Mea
Composer: Manuel Cardoso
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1625

Description: Funeral motet published in Cardoso's Liber Primus Missarum (Lisbon, 1625) alongside his six-voice setting of the Missa pro defunctis and the motet Non mortui.

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum;
quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei mei?
Quis dabit mihi pennas sicut columbae,
et volabo et requiescam?

 

|valign="baseline" width=50%| English translation

My soul thirsts for God who is great and ever-living;
When shall I come and appear before the face of my God?
Who will give me wings like a dove,
and I shall fly and be at rest?

Ps.42 and Ps.55

 

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