Super flumina Babylonis

By the Streams of Babylon

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c. 1525–1594)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Function/Language(s):
Latin

Occasion:

Proper of Time → Lenten Season → Fourth Sunday of Lent → Cycle B

Publication Information:
Arista — AE 523 (1985)

Text Information:
Reference: Psalm 137:1-2

Lyrics:

Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus, et flevimus,
dum recordaremur tui, Sion:
in salicibus in medio ejus,
suspendimus organa nostra.

English translation:
By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the aspens of that land
we hung up our harps.

Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Feb 19, 2022