Lamentationum Jeremiae - de Quadris, Johannes

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"Johannis de Quadris settings from the Lamentations of Jeremiae are in nine sections, each concluding by the phrase, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum. This corresponds to the use in The Tenebrae services held on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, where the first three lessons were read from the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The verses set to music, though, deviate from modern Roman Catholic praxis. In pre-tridentine praxis, the verses read differed from diocese to diocese. The Tridentine Council 1545-1563 did make the Roman Breviar normative for the whole Roman Catholic Church. Johannes de Quadris' settings use the Roman melody variant for Lamentations in the cantus voice. Johannis de Quadris elaborates this melody in the phrases for the Hebrew letter names used as verse indications. Also the cadenses are elaborated."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Lamentations

♯ Key D minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/2

♬ Voicing → ST

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range G3 – D5

¶ Language → Latin

Measures 475

Texture Homophonic

Parts 2

Instruments A cappella

Pages 24

CPDL # 84590

Editor Andreas Stenberg

Posted 2025-04-23

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

D4 – D5

Instrument 2

G3 – A4

¶Lyrics / Text

Incipit lamentatio Ieremie prophete. ALEPH quomodo sedit sola civitas plena populo facta est quasi vidua domina gentium princeps provinciarum facta est sub tributo BETH plorans ploravit in nocte et lacrimae eius in maxillis eius non est qui consoletur eam ex omnibus caris eius omnes amici eius spreverunt eam et facti sunt ei inimici GIMEL migravit Iuda propter adflictionem et multitudinem servitutis habitavit inter gentes nec invenit requiem omnes persecutores eius adprehenderunt eam inter angustias DELETH viae Sion lugent eo quod non sint qui veniant ad sollemnitatem omnes portae eius destructae sacerdotes eius gementes virgines eius squalidae et ipsa oppressa amaritudine Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum