Vidi speciosam (Felice Anerio)
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CPDL #26692:
Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-05). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original pitch and note values.
General Information
Title: Vidi speciosam
Composer: Felice Anerio
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feast of the Assumption of the BVM.
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Vidi speciosam sicut columbam ascendentem desuper rivos aquarum:
Cuius inaestimabilis odor erat nimis in vestimentis eius.
Et sicut dies verni, flores rosarum circumdabant eam, et lilia convallium.
Quae est ista, quae ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi, ex aromatibus myrrhae et thuris?
And as on a spring day, she was surrounded by roses and lily of the valley.
English translation
<poem>
I saw the fair one rising like a dove above the streams of water:
whose priceless fragrance clung to her garments.
And as on a spring day, she was surrounded by roses and lily of the valley.
Who is this who rises from the desert like a pillar of smoke from incense of myrrh and frankincense?
And as on a spring day, she was surrounded by roses and lily of the valley.