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Amicus meus (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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- Editor: Nancho Alvarez (submitted 2004-10-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 83 kbytes Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Amicus meus
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB or ATTB or ATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1584
Description: No. 1 of Tenebrae Responsories, for Maundy Thursday.
This haunting piece is one of a collection written for the old Tenebrae service. It, like others in this collection, features a verse, a response, a verse and then a response again.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo:
Quem osculatus fuero, ipse est, tenete eum:
Hoc malum fecit signum, qui per osculum ad implevit homicidium.
- Infelix praetermisit pretium sanguinis, et in fine laquaeo se suspendit.
Bonum erat illi, si natus non fuisset homo ille.
- Infelix praetermisit pretium sanguinis, et in fine laquaeo se suspendit.
English translation
The sign by which my friend betrayed me was a kiss:
He whom I kiss, that is he: hold him fast.
He who committed murder by a kiss gave this wicked sign.
- The unhappy wretch repaid the price of blood and in the end hanged himself.
It had been better for that man if he had never been born.
- The unhappy wretch repaid the price of blood and in the end hanged himself.
Italian translation
Il mio amico usò un bacio per tradirmi:
"Colui che sarà baciato, è Lui: prendeteLo!":
Questo male fece segnale: chi per un bacio compì un omicidio.
- L'infelice rifiutò il prezzo del sangue, ed infine, piangendo, si impiccò.
Sarebbe stato meglio per lui se non fosse mai nato.
- L'infelice rifiutò il prezzo del sangue, ed infine, piangendo, si impiccò.
