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*<b>CPDL #6437:</b> [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/victoria/vict-jes.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/victoria/vict-jes.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/victoria/vict-jes.mus Finale-2000].<br>
:<b>Editor:</b> [[User:Sabine Cassola|Sabine Cassola]] <i>(added 2004-01-09)</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Score information: </b>A4, 1 pages, 88 kbytes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Copyright:</b> [[ChoralWiki:Personal|Personal]]<br>
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*<b>CPDL #444:</b> [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/vict-jdm.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/vict-jdm.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/victoria/vict-jdm.zip ENCORE].<br>
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==General Information==
==General Information==

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General Information

Title: Jesu, dulcis memoria
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published:

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Original text and translations

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This score contains only the first verse, but more could be sung to the same music. The full text of the hymn (and an English translation) follow:

Jesu dulcis memoria
Dans vera cordis gaudia:
Sed super mel et omnia
Ejus dulcis praesentia.

Nil canitur suavius,
Nil auditur jucundius
Nil cogitatur dulcius
Quam Jesus Dei filius.

Jesu spes penitentibus,
Quam pius es petentibus!
Quam bonus te quaerentibus!
Sed quid invenientibus?

Nec lingua valet dicere,
Nec littera exprimere:
Expertus potest credere,
Quid sit Jesum diligere.

Sis Jesu nostrum gaudium
Qui es futurus praemium
Sit nostra in te gloria
Per cuncta semper saecula. Amen.

English translation:
Jesus, sweet remembrance,
Granting the heart its true joys,
But above honey and all things
Is His sweet presence.

Nothing more pleasing can be sung,
Nothing gladder can be heard
Nothing sweeter can be thought
Than Jesus, son of God.

Jesus, hope of the penitent,
How merciful you are to those who ask,
How good to those who seek,
But O, what you are to those who find!

Tongue has no power to describe
Nor writings to express
But only belief can know by experience
What it is to love Jesus.

Be our joy, O Jesus,
Who will be the prize we win,
May all our glory be in you, always
And through all ages. Amen.

English Translation by Mick Swithinbank and Jamie Reid Baxter