Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim, Vineam meam non custodivi (Song of Solomon 1:6-7) – Chant, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Song of Solomon 1:6-7 [Latin: Canticum Canticorum 1:5-6]

⁵ Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

⁶ shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.

Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim, quia decoloravit me sol. Filii matris meae pugnaverunt contra me

Vineam meam non custodivi. Indica mihi quem diligit anima mea, ubi pascas, ubi cubes in meridie, ne vagari incipiam post greges sodalium tuorum.

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Antiphon: Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim – Vineam meam non custodivi, for Feast of the Seven Sorrows [Dolours] of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Chant from The Liber Usualis, Solesmes, 1961, p. 1631 or Liber antiphonarius, Solesmes, 1960, p. 842. Vineam meam non custodivi, from Canticum Canticorum (1584), composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Sung by Sarah M. Newman, Palestrina Ensemble Munich

Free sheet music of the chant at GregoBase and free sheet music of the polyphony at Choral Public Domain Library