Popule Meus

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Fri, 2011/04/22 - 12:57pm
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ID: 
228
Composition Date: 
1595
Composer: 
Victoria, Tomás Luis de (1548 – 1611)
Arrangers / Editors: 
Wheeler, Richard W. (1967- )
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Other
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Feria Sexta in Parasceve (Good Friday)
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Friday
Votive: 
F
Performance Time: 
10 min
Composition Type: 
Hymn
Texture: 
Homophonic
Voices: 
SATB
Language: 
Latin
Greek
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Musical Style: 
High Renaissance

Parts

Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Lyrics: 

Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut in quo contristavi  te? responde mihi.

Quia eduxi te de terra Aegypti: parasti crucem salvatori tuo.

Ego propter te flagellavi Aegyptum cum primogenitis suis: et tu me flagellatum tradidisti.

Ego te eduxi de Aegypto, demerso Pharaone in mare rubrum: et tu me tradidisti principibus sacerdotum.

Ego ante te aperui mare: et tu aperuisti lancea latus meum.

Ego ante te præivi in columna nubis: et tu me duxisti ad prætorium Pilati.

Ego te pavi manna per desertum: et tu me cecidisti alapis et flagellis.

Ego te potavi aqua salutis de petra: et tu me potasti felle et aceto.

Ego propter te Chananæorum reges percussi et tu percussisti arundine caput meum

Ego dedi tibi sceptrum regale et tu dedisti capite meo spineam coronam.

Ego te exaltavi magna virtute et tu me suspendisti in patíbulo crucis.

Translated Lyrics: 

Ye people: what have I made you or in what have I offended you? Answer me.

Because I take you out of the earth of Egypt, have you prepared a cross to your Saviour?

Because I punished Egypt with their first-borns, have you surrendered to be lashed?

I took you out of Egypt, I sank the Pharaoh in the red sea and you delivered me to the princes of the priests.

I opened the red sea before you and you opened my side with the lance.

I guided you in the cloud column and you took me to Pilate's courtroom.

I fed you with manna in the desert and you hurt me with slaps and lashes.

Of the rock I gave you to drink the healthy water but you gave me to drink bile and vinegar.

I hurt the cananean kings for you and you hurt my head with a cane.

I gave you a real scepter and you put in my head a crown of thorns.

I exalted you with great power and you lifted me in the scaffold of the cross.