Tristis est anima mea (Carlo Gesualdo)
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CPDL #15910: Finale 2006
- Editor: Kurt Pages (added 2008-02-05). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 208 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Reduction of the semibreves (whole notes) etc. of the original printing from 1611 to minims (half notes) etc. With added German translation by the editor.
General Information
Title: Tristis est anima mea
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1611
Description: Responsorium 2 für die 1. Nokturn des Gründonnerstages (= Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday, Nocturno 1, Response 2). – Title of the first printing from 1611: Responsoria Sanctae Spectantia Et Alia Ad Officium Hebdomadae
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Original text and translations
See translation page: Tristis est anima mea for partial text and translations.
Latin text
- Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem:
- sustinete hic et vigilate mecum.
- Nunc videbitis turbam,
- quæ circumdabit me.
- Vos fugam capietis,
- et ego vadam immolari pro vobis.
- (Mt 26, 38 + 56)
- Versus:
- Ecce appropinquat hora, et Filius hominis
- tradetur in manus peccatorum.
- (Mt 26, 51)
- [Repetenda: Vos fugam capietis]
German translation
by Kurt Pages
- Traurig ist meine Seele bis an den Tod:
- harrt hier aus und wacht mit mir.
- Nun werdet ihr die Menge sehen,
- die mich umgeben wird.
- Ihr werdet die Flucht ergreifen,
- und ich werde gehen, um für euch geopfert zu werden.
- Vers:
- Siehe, es naht die Stunde, und des Menschen Sohn
- wird übergeben werden in die Hände der Sünder.
English translation
- Sorrowful is my soul even unto death.
- Stay here, and watch with me.
- Now you shall see the mob that will surround me.
- You shall take flight, and I shall go to be sacrificed.
- Verse:
- The time draws near,
- and the son of man shall be delivered.