Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum (Pierre de Manchicourt)

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  • (Posted 2017-03-04)  CPDL #43412:     
Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2017-03-04).   Score information: A4, 18 pages, 121 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth.

General Information

Title: Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum (2.p. Revertere dilecte mi)
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt
Source of Text: Song of Songs

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: STTB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1547 in Sacrarum cantionum, liber 4, no. 2
Description: This is one of seven settings of text from the Song of Songs (Canticum Canticorum) among Manchicourt's output of more than seventy motets. The clefs in the partbooks were G2, C2, C3 and C4.

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum,
ut pascatur in hortis suis, et lilia colligat.

Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi,
qui pascitur inter lilia.

Revertere dilecte mi ut intueamur te
et mane surgamus ad vineas
videamus si floruit vinea
si flores fructus parturiunt,
si floruerunt mala punica.
Ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.