April 16, 2003
More on the Stabat Mater.
More on the Stabat Mater. This will be this week’s poetry feature. It is a magnificent poem, and makes a great text for choral settings. Reading it over has given me one of my demented ideas: Stabat Mater Dolorosa sung as a fado. Think about that. If you want to do it, go ahead, there has to be room in the world for more than one.
I am not going to provide a lot of background, nor a list of composers of Stabat Mater settings, because someone has done so already:
However, be warned that his background material is not too solid. For that, there is always the Catholic Encyclopedia. So, if you want just the poem, here it is:
STABAT MATER DOLOROSA
Stabat mater dolorosa
Juxta Crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat Filius.
Cujus animam gementem,
Contristatam et dolentem,
Pertransivit gladius.
O quam tristis et afflicta
Fuit illa benedicta
Mater Unigeniti.
Quae maerebat et dolebat,
Pia Mater, dum videbat
Nati poenas inclyti.
Quis est homo, qui non fleret,
Matrem Christi si videret
In tanto supplicio?
Quis non posset contristari,
Christi Matrem contemplari
Dolentem cum Filio?
Pro peccatis suae gentis
Vidit J`esum in tormentis
Et flagellis subditum.
Vidit suum dulcem natum
Moriendo desolatum
Dum emisit spiritum.
Eia, Mater, fons amoris
Me sentire vim doloris
Fac, ut tecum lugeam.
Fac, ut ardeat cor meum,
In amando Christum Deum
Ut sibi complaceam.
Sancta Mater, istud agas,
Crucifixi fige plagas,
Cordi meo valide.
Tui nati vulnerati,
Tam dignitati pro me pati,
Poenas mecum divide.
Fac me vere tecum flere,
Crucifixo condolere,
Donec ego vixero.
Juxta crucem tecum stare,
Et me tibi sociare
In plancto desidero.
Virgo virginium praeclara,
Mihi jam non sis amara,
Fac me tecum plangere.
Fac, ut portem Christi mortem,
Passionis fac consortem
Et plagas recolere.
Fac me plagis vulnerari,
Fac me cruce inebriari
Et cruore Filii.
Flammis ne urar succensus
Per te, Virgo, sim defensus
In die iudicii.
Christe, cum sit hinc exire,
De per Matrem me venire
Ad palmam victoriae.
Quando corpus morietur,
Fac ut animae donetur
Paradisi gloria.
Amen. Alleluia.
Posted by erik at April 16, 2003 11:20 AM | TrackBackThank you for making a link to my site. However, the URL has been changed to
www.stabatmater.dds.nl
As for the "not too solid" background: I did everything I could to be as solid as possible, and checked every source I could find.
Still, a lot is not known about this poem, so if you have more information, please let me know.
Thank,
Hans van der Velden