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Amicus meus osculi
Staff Notation • Sacred, Tenebrae responsories
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Amicus meus osculi by Marco Antonio Ingegneri — Lyrics
Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo:
Quem osculatus fuero, ipse est, tenete eum:
hoc malum fecit signum, qui per osculum adimplevit homicidium.
Infelix prætermisit pretium sanguinis, et in fine laqueo se suspendit.
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About Amicus meus osculi
This SATB setting of a Latin text offers a dramatic reflection on betrayal. The music opens with a sense of immediate urgency, the voices weaving together to portray the sorrowful events of Christ's Passion. The text, a Tenebrae responsory, vividly describes the kiss of Judas, the arrest, and the subsequent despair of the betrayer, who
