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Deus, Deus meus, respice in me
Staff Notation • Sacred, Motets
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Deus, Deus meus, respice in me by Giovanni Gabrieli — Lyrics
In finem, pro susceptione matutina. Psalmus David.
Deus, Deus meus, respice in me: quare me dereliquisti? longe a salute mea verba delictorum meorum.
Deus meus, clamabo per diem, et non exaudies; et nocte, et non ad insipientiam mihi.
Tu autem in sancto habitas, laus Israël.
In te speraverunt patres nostri; speraverunt, et liberasti eos.
Ad te clamaverunt, et salvi facti sunt; in te speraverunt, et non sunt confusi.
Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo; opprobrium hominum, et abjectio plebis.
Omnes videntes me deriserunt me; locuti sunt labiis, et moverunt caput.
Speravit in Domino, eripiat eum: salvum faciat eum, quoniam vult eum.
Quoniam tu es qui extraxisti me de ventre, spes mea ab uberibus matris meae.
In te projectus sum ex utero; de ventre matris meae Deus meus es tu:
ne discesseris a me, quoniam tribulatio proxima est, quoniam non est qui adjuvet.
Circumdederunt me vituli multi; tauri pingues obsederunt me.
Aperuerunt super me os suum, sicut leo rapiens et rugiens.
Sicut aqua effusus sum, et dispersa sunt omnia ossa mea: factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquescens in medio ventris mei.
Aruit tamquam testa virtus mea, et lingua mea adhaesit faucibus meis: et in pulverem mortis deduxisti me.
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About Deus, Deus meus, respice in me
This motet for double choir (SSATTB.SSATTB) by Giovanni Gabrieli is a powerful setting of a Latin text taken from Psalm 21. The music opens with a sense of urgent questioning, the two choirs engaging in a complex dialogue. Gabrieli explores the devotional depths of the text, which moves from a plea for divine attention and a lament of personal suffering to an affirmation of faith and trust in God. The expansive double-choir writing creates a rich, resonant soundscape, ideal for exploring the dramatic contrasts within the psalm. Its sacred nature and grand scale mark it as a significant example of Venetian polychoral motets.
