In jejunio et fletu (Thomas Tallis)

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  • CPDL #23776: [ Icon_pdf.gif]
Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2011-06-20).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: At original pitch for ATTBarB
  • CPDL #16385: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-03-18).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 128 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: At original (extremely low) pitch for ATTBB.
  • CPDL #16386: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-03-18).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 128 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transposed up a major 6th for SAATB. Revised version of both editions Feb 2011, correcting error (Tenor bar 67 - thanks to Daniel Rollison for pointing this out).

General Information

Title: In jejunio et fletu     Alternate spelling: In Ieiunio Et Fletu
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Source of text: Joel 2:12, 17; First Sunday of Lent, Matins Responsory

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTBarB
or SAATB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575), no.26

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

In jejunio et fletu orabant sacerdotes: Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo, et ne des hereditatem tuam in perditionem. Inter vestibulum et altare plorabant sacerdotes, dicentes: Parce populo tuo.

English.png English translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt

In fasting and weeping the priests prayed: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people, and give not thine inheritance to perdition. Between the porch and the altar the priests wept, saying: Spare thy people.