A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 14

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 14 March 3, 2015

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Inspired by yesterday’s selection, here’s another setting of “O vos omnes,” this time from the masterful Tomás Luis de Victoria. This particularly setting serves as the fourteenth of his Tenebrae Responsories, of which there are eighteen. All are worthy additions to any Lenten Listening List. (And all are here, thanks to The Sixteen.)

O vos omnes qui transitis per viam: attendite et videte
si est dolor sicut dolor meus.
Attendite, universi populi, et videte dolorem meum.
Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.

O all ye that pass by the way, attend and see:
If there be any sorrow like to my sorrow.
V. Attend, all ye people, and see my sorrow:
If there be any sorrow like to my sorrow.

Attribution(s): Tomás Luis de Victoria” from Archive.org and licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons; “Bells” provided by Shutterstock..


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