Amicus meus (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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- Editor: Nancho Alvarez (added 2004-10-19). Score information: A4 Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed under 'Oficio de Semana Santa' (Maundy Thursday). full score and individual parts available as midi files.
- Editor: Marco-cipoo.net (added 2002-06-28). Score information: 3 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed alphabetically by composer
- CPDL #1231: Encore.
- Editor: [[User:|User:]] (added 2000-08-22). Score information: 108 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Amicus meus
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
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.