“Sicut Cervus”. A Setting Of Psalm 42 By Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594). Sung By: The Marian Consort.

“Sicut Cervus”.

Composer: Palestrina.

Sung By: The Marian Consort.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Image: CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES

The following Text, unless stated otherwise, is from 

DUO MIGNARDA

“Sicut Cervus” and its secunda pars “Sitivit Anima Mea” 

are a setting of Psalm 42, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594).

This is an evocative arrangement for Solo Voice and Lute 

of the beloved Four-Part Motet.

Lyrics.

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,

ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.

Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum:

quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei ?

Fuerunt mihi lacrymae meae panes die ac nocte,

dum dicitur mihi quotidie:

Ubi est Deus tuus ?

As the hart longs for the water springs,

So longs my Soul for Thee, O God.

My Soul has thirsted for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before the face of my God ?

My tears have been my bread by day and by night,

While it is said to me daily:

Where is your God ?

From Singles, released 28 March 2013.

© all rights reserved.

Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

“Sicut Cervus” is a Motet for Four Voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the Psalterium Romanum rather than the Vulgate Bible.

The Incipit is “Sicut Cervus Desiderat Ad Fontes” (As The Deer Desires The Fountains) followed by a second part (“Secunda Pars”) “Sitivit Anima Mea” (My Soul Thirsts).

It has become one of Palestrina’s most popular Motets, regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony, expressing Spiritual yearning.

The Motet is a setting of Psalm 42:1-3.

The Psalm was a prescribed Tract for the Blessing of the Water (Font) on Holy Saturday,[1] recalling the Water of Baptism as well as the “Living Water of the Eucharist”.[2]

The Text, speaking of the longing for God, retained its association with Funeral Music,[2] having been widely used as the Tract before the Tridentine Roman Missal of 1570 standardised the Tract “Absolve, Domine”.[3]

The first edition which has survived in full is a posthumously published collection of Motets, “Motectorum Quatuor Vocibus” . . . which appeared in Venice in 1604.[4]

However, it appears that a lost edition of “Sicut Cervus” was published in Rome during the composer’s lifetime.[5]

It is now one of Palestrina’s most anthologised works and regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony.[1]

“Sicut Cervus”. A Setting Of Psalm 42 By Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594). Sung By: The Marian Consort.

“Sicut Cervus”.

Composer: Palestrina.

Sung By: The Marian Consort.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Image: CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES

The following Text, unless stated otherwise, is from 

DUO MIGNARDA

“Sicut Cervus” and its secunda pars “Sitivit Anima Mea” 

are a setting of Psalm 42, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594).

This is an evocative arrangement for Solo Voice and Lute 

of the beloved Four-Part Motet.

Lyrics.

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,

ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.

Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum:

quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei ?

Fuerunt mihi lacrymae meae panes die ac nocte,

dum dicitur mihi quotidie:

Ubi est Deus tuus ?

As the hart longs for the water springs,

So longs my Soul for Thee, O God.

My Soul has thirsted for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before the face of my God ?

My tears have been my bread by day and by night,

While it is said to me daily:

Where is your God ?

From Singles, released 28 March 2013.

© all rights reserved.

Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

“Sicut Cervus” is a Motet for Four Voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the Psalterium Romanum rather than the Vulgate Bible.

The Incipit is “Sicut Cervus Desiderat Ad Fontes” (As The Deer Desires The Fountains) followed by a second part (“Secunda Pars”) “Sitivit Anima Mea” (My Soul Thirsts).

It has become one of Palestrina’s most popular Motets, regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony, expressing Spiritual yearning.

The Motet is a setting of Psalm 42:1-3.

The Psalm was a prescribed Tract for the Blessing of the Water (Font) on Holy Saturday,[1] recalling the Water of Baptism as well as the “Living Water of the Eucharist”.[2]

The Text, speaking of the longing for God, retained its association with Funeral Music,[2] having been widely used as the Tract before the Tridentine Roman Missal of 1570 standardised the Tract “Absolve, Domine”.[3]

The first edition which has survived in full is a posthumously published collection of Motets, “Motectorum Quatuor Vocibus” . . . which appeared in Venice in 1604.[4]

However, it appears that a lost edition of “Sicut Cervus” was published in Rome during the composer’s lifetime.[5]

It is now one of Palestrina’s most anthologised works and regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony.[1]

“Sicut Cervus”. A Setting Of Psalm 42 By Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594). Sung By: The Marian Consort.

“Sicut Cervus”.

Composer: Palestrina.

Sung By: The Marian Consort.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Image: CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES

The following Text, unless stated otherwise, is from 

DUO MIGNARDA

“Sicut Cervus” and its secunda pars “Sitivit Anima Mea” 

are a setting of Psalm 42, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594).

This is an evocative arrangement for Solo Voice and Lute 

of the beloved Four-Part Motet.

Lyrics.

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,

ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.

Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum:

quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei ?

Fuerunt mihi lacrymae meae panes die ac nocte,

dum dicitur mihi quotidie:

Ubi est Deus tuus ?

As the hart longs for the water springs,

So longs my Soul for Thee, O God.

My Soul has thirsted for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before the face of my God ?

My tears have been my bread by day and by night,

While it is said to me daily:

Where is your God ?

From Singles, released 28 March 2013.

© all rights reserved.

Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

“Sicut Cervus” is a Motet for Four Voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the Psalterium Romanum rather than the Vulgate Bible.

The Incipit is “Sicut Cervus Desiderat Ad Fontes” (As The Deer Desires The Fountains) followed by a second part (“Secunda Pars”) “Sitivit Anima Mea” (My Soul Thirsts).

It has become one of Palestrina’s most popular Motets, regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony, expressing Spiritual yearning.

The Motet is a setting of Psalm 42:1-3.

The Psalm was a prescribed Tract for the Blessing of the Water (Font) on Holy Saturday,[1] recalling the Water of Baptism as well as the “Living Water of the Eucharist”.[2]

The Text, speaking of the longing for God, retained its association with Funeral Music,[2] having been widely used as the Tract before the Tridentine Roman Missal of 1570 standardised the Tract “Absolve, Domine”.[3]

The first edition which has survived in full is a posthumously published collection of Motets, “Motectorum Quatuor Vocibus” . . . which appeared in Venice in 1604.[4]

However, it appears that a lost edition of “Sicut Cervus” was published in Rome during the composer’s lifetime.[5]

It is now one of Palestrina’s most anthologised works and regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony.[1]

“Sicut Cervus”. A Setting Of Psalm 42 By Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594). Sung By: The Marian Consort.

“Sicut Cervus”.

Composer: Palestrina.

Sung By: The Marian Consort.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The following Text, unless stated otherwise, is from DUO MIGNARDA

“Sicut Cervus” and its secunda pars “Sitivit Anima Mea” are a setting of Psalm 42, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594).

This is an evocative arrangement for Solo Voice and Lute of the beloved Four-Part Motet.

Lyrics.

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,

ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.

Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem vivum:

quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei ?

Fuerunt mihi lacrymae meae panes die ac nocte,

dum dicitur mihi quotidie:

Ubi est Deus tuus ?

As the hart longs for the water springs,

So longs my Soul for Thee, O God.

My Soul has thirsted for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before the face of my God ?

My tears have been my bread by day and by night,

While it is said to me daily:

Where is your God ?

Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

“Sicut Cervus” is a Motet for Four Voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the Psalterium Romanum rather than the Vulgate Bible.

The Incipit is “Sicut Cervus Desiderat Ad Fontes” (As The Deer Desires The Fountains) followed by a second part (“Secunda Pars”) “Sitivit Anima Mea” (My Soul Thirsts).

It has become one of Palestrina’s most popular Motets, regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony, expressing Spiritual yearning.

The Motet is a setting of Psalm 42:1-3. 

The Psalm was a prescribed Tract for the Blessing of the Water (Font) on Holy Saturday,[1] recalling the Water of Baptism as well as the “Living Water of the Eucharist”.[2]

The Text, speaking of the longing for God, retained its association with Funeral Music,[2] having been widely used as the Tract before the Tridentine Roman Missal of 1570 standardised the Tract “Absolve, Domine”.[3]

The first edition which has survived in full is a posthumously published collection of Motets, “Motectorum Quatuor Vocibus” . . . which appeared in Venice in 1604.[4]

However, it appears that a lost edition of “Sicut Cervus” was published in Rome during the composer’s lifetime.[5]

It is now one of Palestrina’s most anthologised works and regarded as a model of Renaissance Polyphony.[1]