Richard Dering
 (c.1580 - c.1630)

Contristatus est Rex David
 (S.S.A.T.B.)
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149435 : Dering : Contristatus est Rex David : sheet music
Catalogued as Choral - Sacred

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Publ. Antwerp, 1617. Dering set this text twice, in both English (Geneva Bible) and Latin (Vulgate). The organ accompaniment, a basso seguente with perfunctory figuring, has been realised in this edition, but is perhaps best reserved for rehearsal only.
Lyrics: 2 Samuel 18:33

Contristatus est Rex David et operuit caput suum, et flevit, et sic loquebatur vadens:
Fili mi Absalon, quis mihi tribuat ut ego moriar pro te.

The king was moved and he covered his head, and wept, and as he went, thus he said:
O my son Absalom, would God I had died for thee.