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Domine probasti me a 4
Staff Notation • Sacred, Vesper Psalms
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Domine probasti me a 4 by Amadio Freddi — Lyrics
In finem, Psalmus David. Domine, probasti me, et cognovisti me;
tu cognovisti sessionem meam et resurrectionem meam.
Intellexisti cogitationes meas de longe;
semitam meam et funiculum meum investigasti:
et omnes vias meas praevidisti,
quia non est sermo in lingua mea.
Ecce, Domine, tu cognovisti omnia, novissima et antiqua.
Tu formasti me, et posuisti super me manum tuam.
Mirabilis facta est scientia tua ex me; confortata est, et non potero ad eam.
Quo ibo a spiritu tuo? et quo a facie tua fugiam?
Si ascendero in caelum, tu illic es; si descendero in infernum, ades.
Si sumpsero pennas meas diluculo, et habitavero in extremis maris,
etenim illuc manus tua deducet me, et tenebit me dextera tua.
Et dixi: Forsitan tenebrae conculcabunt me; et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.
Quia tenebrae non obscurabuntur a te, et nox sicut dies illuminabitur:
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About Domine probasti me a 4
Amadio Freddi's motet Domine probasti me is a setting for SATB choir of a Latin text from the Psalms. The composer lived and worked in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a period rich in sacred polyphony in Italy. The chosen text, Psalm 139, explores profound themes of divine omniscience and omnipresence. The words speak of God's intimate knowledge of our thoughts, actions, and very being, from our rising to our resting, and even our innermost intentions. The psalmist questions where one might flee from God's spirit, finding Him present in the highest heavens and the deepest abyss alike. Freddi's four-part setting offers a rich harmonic language to convey the awe and wonder inherent in contemplating such a text.
