ICG 59 Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 1 Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. No. Title Composer Lassus, Orlande de: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. The text is the second responsory at Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday, one of the Latin texts kept in the liturgy after the town converted to Lutheranism. Source: Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek - Musikabteilung, Aug. LX. Now ye shall see a multitude, that will surround me. Tristis est anima mea is the second responsory of the Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday.The Latin text refers to Christ's Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, a part of his Passion.. Nunc[Iam] videbitis turbam quæ circumdabit me. It has been described as a "serenely reflective" work. « Tristis est anima mea » (Répons des Ténèbres) Pour voix de Soprano et Electronique (sons fixés) Un répons (le s ne se prononce pas) est à l'origine un chant alterné entre un chantre soliste et un chÅur, utilisé dans un office liturgique, et participant en particulier du chant grégorien. Christoph and Joh. John Butt describes his approach as "conservative in texture but extremely expressive". [Kuhnau] was better versed in the technicalities of vocal writing than most other German composers of the time. First published: 1585 in Madrigali libro primo, no. Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis. 3.16. flag. [10] Butt concludes: This piece, apparently performed by J. S. Bach, is not securely attributable to Kuhnau. Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem: sustinete hic, et vigilate mecum: nunc videbitis turbam, quæ circumdabit me. [8], The first eight measures are devoted exclusively to the word "tristis" (sad, sorrowful),[9] with the voices entering one after the other, each beginning with a long note, from the lowest to the highest which sings only a short sighing motif. II. [13] The music is transposed half a tone down to E minor. Philipp Spitta's 19th century biography of the latter contains the following:[1].mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}. Tristis est anima mea is a very popular text. Tristis est anima mea usque . It is Tristis est anima mea (responsory), the second responsory of the Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday which was often set to music.It may also refer to: Movement XI of Christus, an oratorium by Franz Liszt; Heu me, tristis est anima mea, attributed to Philippe de Vitry Its first two lines are quoted from Matthew 26:38. First published: Description: This is No 2 of 9 Responsoria in Coena Domini (Johann Michael Haydn), MH 276 External websites: Original text and translations. 2020 ⢠1 song. The first two lines of the responsory are Matthew 26:38. Ecce appropinquat hora, et Filius hominis tradetur in manus peccatorum. Translations are offered by the Episcopal Church[4] and the Roman Catholic Church:[3]. Language: Latin Instruments: A cappella . Title: Tristis est anima mea Composer: Johann Kuhnau. [13] Ecce quomodo moritur justus, a Latin version of that text, is another responsory for Holy Week. Title: Tristis est anima mea Composer: Johann Michael Haydn. The predictions follow each other without a rest. Ye shall run away, and I will go to be sacrificed for you. Office/Mass: M. Genre: R. Position: 1.2. Mode: 8. Ludwig Bach even in technical qualities, it has a breadth of conception which betrays the study of the classical Italian models. Folio: 085v. In the fourth prediction "Et ego vadam" (And I will go, measure 85), Jesus speaks of himself, and the composer expresses it by the voices entering one after another, but with exactly the same motif, in the first four voices even from the same pitch (tenor, bass, soprano II, alto. Title: Tristis est anima mea Composer: Giovanni Croce. 1 and 1088 respectively). Contents. None [force assignment] Language Latin Composer Time Period Comp. [2][3] By then it proved impossible to ascertain authorship on source-critical grounds (among other reasons while the Leipzig parts mentioned by Spitta could no longer be traced). He followed an example by Orlande de Lassus of the same text also for five parts, indicated depending on edition as SAATB[7] or SATTB. [8] "ad mortem" is repeated, mirroring the beginning: the voices enter again one after the other but beginning with the highest voice. Motetto a 5 voci Tristis est anima mea: English Title: My soul is sorrowful even to death: German Title: Der Gerechte kömmt um: English Title: See, the righteous must die: French Title: Le juste périt : El justo perece: Event: Memorial Motet: Composed: Composed by Johann Kuhnau Based on his Latin motet Tristis est anima mea Included, alongside movements by Georg Philipp Telemann and J.S. Tristis est anima mea Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. Tristis est anima mea Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Around 1750 the pasticcio passion oratorio Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt was assembled in the circle around Johann Sebastian Bach and his son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickol. ⦠Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB Genre: Sacred, Motet. 5 in Cena Dom. Kuhnau's successor at the Thomaskirche, Johann Sebastian Bach, adapted the music to a German text, Der Gerechte kömmt um, and added an instrumental accompaniment. [4] The orchestral accompaniment consists of two characteristic woodwind parts, strings and continuo.[13][16]. Harsh judgements have been passed on the quality of Kuhnau's music: Spitta, after describing various aspects of where he sees Kuhnau's choral music wanting, concludes: "Kuhnau did not understand the world, nor did the world understand him..."[17] The musical quality of Tristis est anima mea appears to rise above this,[1] which is why the attribution to Kuhnau is considered doubtful, and why it seems reasonable to assume that Bach, judging on quality, reused it. Johann Kuhnau was Johann Sebastian Bach's predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. Tristis est anima mea Alt ernative. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? About the headline (FAQ) Authorship. No_Favorite. After a short rest, the second line of the text is presented in similar building, this time in the sequence from inside out: alto, soprano II and tenor together, soprano I and bass almost together, all arriving in measure 50 in homophony on the last word "mecum", which marks the end of the biblical text and is followed by a long rest with a fermata.[9]. Description: There is a reworking of this piece by J. S. Bach, Der Gerechte kömmt um. [4], The motet is set to the Latin text of the second Tenebrae responsory for Maundy Thursday. "Tristis est anima mea"Motet by Orlando de Lassus (1532-1594)Posted for educational purposes only. Ye shall run away, and I will go to be sacrificed for you. 288 It exists in the separate parts in the library of the Leipzig Singakademie and is numbered 362. share. Tristis est anima mea usque . 39 of the pasticcio, an orchestrated version of the Tristis est anima mea motet on a parody text, as an arrangement by Bach. Period: Renaissance: Piece Style Renaissance: Instrumentation 3 ⦠1939 Language Latin Average Duration Avg. The NDSU Concert Choir has a distinguished tradition of performing eminent choral literature at the highest level of artistry. Yet whoever wrote it, this Motet, so sure, direct and moving, is one of the most ear-catching in this selection. Sequence: 1. Here is a list of the different composers that used this text and the voicings of each piece: Agostino Agazzari SATB.SATB; Pedro de Cristo SATB Source: Einsiedeln, Kloster Einsiedeln - Musikbibliothek, 611. Tristis est anima mea (Sad is my soul) is a sacred motet for five voices attributed to Johann Kuhnau, Thomaskantor in Leipzig. Tristis Est Anima Mea, an album by Robert Benson on Spotify. Tristis est anima mea (Sad is my soul) is a sacred motet for five voices attributed to Johann Kuhnau, Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The theme of the text of the second responsory for Maundy Thursday is Jesus in the garden Gethsemane, addressing his disciples. German translation. [2], Tristis est anima mea was frequently recorded, including by the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducted by Rudolf Mauersberger in 1957, and by the Windsbacher Knabenchor conducted by Hans Thamm in 1967. In Tristis est anima mea, Lassus was responding to the intense drama inherent in his Biblical text. Cantus ID: 007780. 5 in Cena Dom. Title: Tristis est anima mea Composer: Giovanni Battista Martini. Tristis est anima mea (Johann Kuhnau) ma His five-part motett for Holy Thursday, Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortemmay be reckoned among the more prominent works of the kind; if it is not of equal merit with the motetts of Joh. My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Ecce appropinquat hora, et Filius hominis tradetur in manus peccatorum. 26:38 and Mk. THe Josef-Matthias-Hauer Vocalensemble, conductor Emanual Schmelzer-Ziringer. [15] The arrangement with the German text may have been a stand-alone (funeral?) motet performed in Leipzig in Bach's time. Mode: 8. Duration: 4 minutes Composer Time Period Comp. It is used very often by almost twenty different composers with a varied range of time periods from Lassus's time to as new as the 1990's. Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis. Stay you here, and watch with me. Sequence: 6. [14] The German text of the chorus, Der Gerechte kömmt um (The righteous perishes), is translated from Isaiah 57:1–2. Number of voices: 4vv Voicings: SATB, STTB or ATTB Genre: Sacred, Tenebrae responsory. Title Composer Gesualdo, Carlo: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. × Tristis Est Anima Mea By Robert Benson. stay you here, and watch with me. IOL 264 Key F major Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 1 Librettist Matthew 26:38 Language Latin Composer Time Period Comp. 14:34). [2], While the first two lines are quoted from the bible, the last two lines of are free anonymous poetry, predicting they will see a crowd, they will flee, and Jesus will go to be sacrificed for them.[1]. Watch the video for Tristis Est Anima Mea from Orlande de Lassus's De Lassus: Requiem à 5 & Motets for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis. Tristis est anima mea, which sets Christâs meditation in the Garden of Gethsemane from St Matthewâs Gospel, is one of Lassusâs most dramatic narrative motets, changing mood every few bars and illustrating the text closely. 1611 Language Latin Average Duration Avg. Just A collection of Kuhnau's sacred music was performed by The King’s Consort, conducted by Robert King, in 1998. Title Composer Kuhnau, Johann: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. More recently the attribution to Kuhnau has been doubted. Tristis est Anima mea; Tu es Petrus; Tui Sunt Coeli; Turba; Unxit te Deus; Ut Inimicos Sactae Ecclesiae; Veni Creator; Veni Creator; Veni Creator; Veni Sancte Spiritus; Verbum Caro; Verbum Caro; Verbum Supernum; Verbum Supernum; Veritas mea; Vespri Solenni; Vexilla Regis Prodeunt; Victimae Paschali Laudes; Other Vocal Works (23) Alla Madonna della Fiducia; Anno Santo; Canzone del ⦠"[20], second responsory at Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday, imitation of Kuhnau's style in the final chorus of Bach's very first cantata for Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach: his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685–1750, Der Gerechte kömmt um BWV deest; BC C 8 (= BC D 10/3), International Music Score Library Project, "Thomaskantoren vor Johann Sebastian Bach", "Bach's Contemporaries / Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) / Sacred Music", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tristis_est_anima_mea_(attributed_to_Kuhnau)&oldid=1008312641, Compositions with a spurious or doubtful attribution, Articles with dead external links from July 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Woodwind I/II (traverso/oboe), Violin I/II, Viola, Continuo, This page was last edited on 22 February 2021, at 17:48. Kuhnau's ideas were however more easily adopted by his successor: there is the imitation of Kuhnau's style in the final chorus of Bach's very first cantata for Leipzig, there are the links to Kuhnau in Bach's Magnificat (SSATB chorus, Christmas interpolations) and there are the similarities in both their Clavier-Übung publications. Ecce appropinquat hora, et Filius hominis tradetur in manus peccatorum. [4] The first words of the text, told in the first person, are translated as "My soul is exceeding sorrowful" in the King James Version (KJV). [6], The composer set the motet for five parts, two sopranos, alto, tenor and bass (SSATB). [5] While the first two lines are quoted from the Bible, the next two are anonymous poetry,[4] Jesus predicting that the disciples will see a crowd ("Iam videbitis turbam"), they will take flight ("Vos fugam capietis"), and he will go to be sacrificed for them ("et ego vadam immolari pro vobis"). His five-part motett for Holy Thursday, Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem,288 may be reckoned among the more prominent works of the kind; if it is not of equal merit with the motetts of Joh. In bars 36–38 the alto, as the only syncopated voice, sings B-A-C-H in a harmonically complicated cadence ending the first main phrase, followed by the text und niemand achtet darauf ("and nobody notices it"). After a leap down of a minor sixth, even steps lead upwards. Tenebræ factæ sunt IV. Tristis est anima mea Alt ernative. Tristis est anima mea Alt ernative. The text is the second responsory at Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday, one of the Latin texts kept in the liturgy after the town converted to Lutheranism. Language: Latin Instruments: A cappella . 1705. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!