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_When you are a very confused person who has recently been to Romics, but this morning at the bus stop there was a girl who asked her friend "What are we doing on Monday?! Rugby concert or May 1st training?!" So all is well!
[You are crazy because that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm here in Stockton, California, and palestrina for example too. and that's a food truck serving up Laotian street food. This is Green Papaya. But there's a line?]
Three panels believed to have formed three of four sides of a fountain in Praeneste, showing a sow with piglets, a lioness with cubs, and a ewe with lamb.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
[Motettorum Quinque Vocibus Liber Quartus Ex Canticis Salominis (Rome, Alessandro Gardano, 1584)]
14
Vox, vox dilecti mei! Ecce, iste venit,
saliens in montibus, transiliens colles.
Similis est dilectus meus capreae,
hinnuloque cervorum.
En ipse stat post parietem nostrum,
respiciens per fenestras,
prospiciens per cancellos.
En dilectus meus loquitur mihi.
15
Surge, propera, amica mea, columba mea,
formosa mea, et veni.
Iam enim hiems transiit; imber abiit et recessit.
Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra.
Tempus putationis advenit;
vox turturis audita est in terra nostra.
Ficus protulit grossos suos;
vineae florentes dederunt odorem suum.
16
Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea, et veni.
Columba mea, in foraminibus petrae,
in caverna maceriae, ostende mihi faciem tuam;
sonet vox tua in auribus meis:
vox enim tua dulcis, et facies tua decora.
17
Dilectus meus mihi, et ego illi,
qui pascitur inter lilia donec aspiret dies,
et inclinentur umbrae.
Revertere, similis esto dilecte mi capreae,
hinnuloque cervorum super montes Bethel.
In lectulo meo, per noctes,
quaesivi quem diligit anima mea;
quaesivi illum, et non inveni.
[Canticum canticorum 2. 8-17]
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Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum · Spirituel Madrigals
Hilliard Ensemble · Paul Hillier
(1986, His Master's Voice – EX 27 0319 3)
Poesia Aperta al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina.
Grazie alla poetessa Natalia Stepanova per avermi citata in qualità di propiziatrice di questo rito.