O Vos Omnes
Motet for TTBB chorus, a cappella
by
Dan Locklair
Latin text:
O vos omnes
Qui transitis per viam
Attendite et videte
Si est dolor
Sicut dolor meus.
English translation:
All you people
Who pass by along the road,
Attend to me and see, I pray,
Is there sorrow
Like unto my sorrow?
tr. Robert Ulery*
2 – 20 – 98
Duration : ca. 4’ 30”
*This translation is used with the kind permission of my colleague, Robert Ulery (Professor, Classical Languages, Wake Forest University).
D.L.
Spring 1998
Winston-Salem, NC