Tenebrae Responsories
Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia is a collection of music for Holy Week by Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo, published in 1611. It consists of three sets of nine short pieces, one set for each of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, and a psalm and a hymn. The work was written for unaccompanied voices: two soprano parts, alto, two tenor parts, and bass.
The texts of the Responsories for Holy Week are related to Jesus's Passion and are sung in between the lessons at Tenebrae. Gesualdo's settings are stylistically madrigali spirituali - madrigals on sacred texts. As in Gesualdo's later books of madrigals, he uses particularly sharp dissonance and shocking chromatic juxtapositions, especially in the parts highlighting text passages having to do with Christ's suffering, or the guilt of St. Peter in having betrayed Jesus.
Movements
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: I. In monte Oliveti
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: II. Tristis est anima mea
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: III. Ecce vidimus eum
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: IV. Amicus meus
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: V. Judas mercator pessimus
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: VI. Unus ex discipulis meis
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: VII. Eram quasi agnus innocens
- for Maundy Thursday: for Maundy Thursday: VIII. Una hora non potuistis
- for Maundy Thursday: Feria Quinta, Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: IX. Seniores populi
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: I. Omnes amici mei
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: II. Velum templi
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: III. Vinea mea electa
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: IV. Tamquam ad latronem
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: V. Tenebrae factae sunt
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: VI. Animam meam dilectam
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: VII. Tradiderunt me
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories For Good Friday: VIII. Jesum Tradidit Impius
- for Good Friday: Feria Sexta, Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: IX. Caligaverunt oculi mei
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Sicut ovis ad occisionem
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Ierusalem, surge
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Plange quasi virgo
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Recessit pastor noster
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: O vos omnes
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Astiterunt reges
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Aestimatus sum
- for Holy Saturday: for Holy Saturday: Sepulto Domino
- “et alia”: “et alia”: Benedictus, Canticle (Luke I, 68-79)
- “et alia”: “et alia”: Psalmus 50: Miserere mei, deus