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Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Staff Notation • Sacred, Motets
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Ad Dominum cum tribularer by Stefano Felis — Lyrics
Canticum graduum. Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi, et exaudivit me.
Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis et a lingua dolosa.
Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam?
Sagittae potentis acutae, cum carbonibus desolatoriis.
Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! habitavi cum habitantibus
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About Ad Dominum cum tribularer
This setting of Psalm 119 is for SAATB voices and sung in Latin. The music opens with a sense of supplication, the voices entering and receding like waves of prayer. The texture is imitative in places, but always subservient to the declamatory setting of the text. The composer vividly depicts the psalmist's distress and longing for deliverance from enemies, with moments of intense drama reflecting the text's plea: "O Lord, deliver my soul from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue."
