Tota Pulchra Es [You are altogether beautiful] (Song of Solomon 4: 7,11; 2: 11-13; 4: 8) – Heinrich Isaac

Song of Solomon 4:7,11; 2:11-13; 4:8 [Latin] – You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
Your lips distil nectar; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your perfumes is beyond all spices.
For now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
The flowers have appeared; the flowering vines have given forth their fragrance, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.
Arise, my love, my fair one; come from Lebanon, Come, you will be crowned.

Original Latin:

Tota pulchra es, amica mea, et macula non est in te;
favus distillans labia tua; mel et lac sub lingua tua;
odor unguentorum tuorum super omnia aromata:
jam enim hiems transiit, imber abiit et recessit.
Flores apparuerunt;
vineae florentes odorem dederunt,
et vox turturis audita est in terra nostra:
surge, propera, amica mea:
veni de Libano, veni, coronaberis.

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“Tota Pulchra Es” à4, sacred motet for four voices, composed by Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517), and first published in Dodecachordon (Henricus Glareanus) (1547).

Performed by The Tallis Scholars

Free sheet music available at Choral Public Domain Library