Trauere wie eine Jungfrau | Trauere wie eine Jungfrau

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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Plange quasi virgo

Language: Latin

Our translations: GER

Plange quasi virgo, 
[plebs mea,]¹
ululate, pastores, 
in cinere et cilicio
quia veniet dies Domini 
magna et amara valde.

Accingite vos, sacerdotes, 
et plangite, ministri altaris,
aspergite vos cinere.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Gesualdo • L. Perosi

L. Perosi sets stanza 1

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Note: This is a responsory from the Tenebrae service for Holy Saturday in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.

¹ omitted by Perosi

Text Authorship:

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , first published 1611 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613), "Plange quasi virgo", published 1611 [ vocal sextet (SSATTB) a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Lorenzo Perosi (1872 - 1956), "Duetto delle due Marie al Sepolcro", stanza 1 [ duet ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Trauere wie eine Jungfrau", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-15
Line count: 9
Word count: 30

Trauere wie eine Jungfrau

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Latin

Trauere wie eine Jungfrau, 
[mein Volk,]¹
heult, Hirten, 
geht in Sack und Asche,
denn der gewaltige und äußerst 
bittere Tag des Herrn wird kommen.

Gürtet euch, Priester, 
und klagt, Altardiener,
streut Asche aufs Haupt.

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• L. Perosi

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¹ omitted by Perosi

Text Authorship:

Translation from Latin to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , first published 1611
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-11
Line count: 9
Word count: 35