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APPENDIX A 

TIMELINE OF DAVID’S LAMENTATIONS 

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Table A.1: Timeline of David’s Lamentations—Ninth-Sixteenth centuries 

Date Title Composer Genre 

9 th century 1 Rex autem David Anonymous 

11 th century Montes Gelboe nec ros Anonymous 

11 th century Saul et Jonathas amabiles Anonymous 

11 th century Doleo super te Anonymous 

after c1130 Planctus David super Saul et 

Ionatha; 

Pt. I: Dolorum solatium 

Pt. II: Amalech involuit 

Pt. III: Saul regum fortissime 

Pt. IV: Ve, ve, tibi madida 

Pt. V: Heu cur consilio 

Pt. VI: Do quietem fidibus 

Peter Abelard 

(b. 1079, d. 1142) 

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plainchant 

antiphon 

plainchant 

antiphon 

plainchant 

antiphon 

plainchant 

antiphon 

monophonic 

planctus 

14 th century Doleo super te/ Absalon fili mi Anonymous Polytextual 

motet 

before 1492? Triste esta el rey David Anonymous 

before c1513 Absalon, fili mi Josquin des Prez? 

(b. 1450/55, d. 1521) 

OR Pierre de la Rue? (b. 

1452, d. 1518) 

before c1513 Considera Israel; 

Pt. 1: Considera Israel 

Pt. 2: Sagitta Jonathae 

Pt. 3: Filiae Israel 

Pt. 4: Doleo super 

before 1521 Planxit autem David; 

Pt.1: Planxit autem David 

Pt. 2: Montes Gelboe 

Pt. 3: Sagitta Jonathae 

Pt. 4: Doleo super te 

Pierre de la Rue 

(b. 1452, d. 1518) 

Josquin des Prez 

(b. 1450/55, d. 1521) 

Traditional 

Sephardic song 

4 vv. motet 

4 vv. motet 

4 vv. motet 

Sources 

Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS lat. 

17436 (earliest source) 

see p. 5 for other sources 

Ivrea, Chapter Lib., MS 106 

Monza, Chapter Lib., Cod. 

c. 12.75 (earliest sources) 










Vatican City, Bib. Apost., 

Cod. Regin lat 288 

Oxford, Univ. Lib., 

MS Bodl. 79 

Paris, Bib. Nat., MS NAL 3126 

Cambridge, Gonville and 

Caius College, MS 

512/543 

? 

London, Brit. Lib., MS 

Royal 8 G VII 

RISM 1540.7, Augsburg 

RISM 1559.2, Nürnberg 

Florence, Bib. Natl., 

MS II.I.232 

Vatican City, Bib. Apost., MS 

Palatini Latini 1976-79 

Brussels, Bibl. Royal, MS 228 

London, British Library, MS 

Royal 8 G VII 

Florence, Bib. Natl., MS 

II.I.232 

1 The dating of the four plainchant antiphons above is based on the earliest source for each antiphon. The 

information for dating the sources came from Terence Bailey, director, CANTUS: A Database for Latin 

Ecclesiastical Chant, University of Western Ontario, http://www.publish.owo.ca/~cantus/fdes11-field.html 

(accessed on April 4, 2006). For more information about the sources also see René Jean Hesbert, ed., Corpus 

antiphonalium officii (Rome: Casa Editrice Herder, 1963-68).

Table A.1—continued 

Date Title & Genre Composer Genre 

1521 Rex autem David Mathieu Gascogne 

(fl. 1517-1518) 

1527 

Klingender Ton Hans Sachs 

(1494-1576) 

pub. 1538 Rex autem David, 

Anonymous 

pub. 1538 Absalon, fili mi Anonymous 

c1540 Rex autem David Adrian Willaert (?) 

(b. 1490, d. 1562) 

[attribution doubtful] 

pub. 1546 Triste estaba el rey David Alonso Mudarra 

(b. 1510, d. 1580) 

pub. 1546 Israel, mira tua montes Alonso Mudarra 

(b. 1510, d. 1580) 

1549 Rex autem David; Jacobus 

Pt. 1: Rex autem David Clemens non Papa 

Pt. 2: Planxit autem (b. c1510-15, d. 1555/6) 

before 1553 Doleo super te Matheo Flecha 

(b. 1481?, d.1553?) 

1559 Doleo super te Absalon Benedictus Appenzeller 

(b. 1480-88, 

d. after 1558) 

pub. 1564 Lugebat David Absalon; Josquin des Prez? OR 

Pt. 1: Lugebat David Nicholas Gombert? 

Absalon 

Pt. 2: Porro rex operuit 

(b. 1495, d. 1560) 

before 1571 Rex autem David Bernardino de Ribera 

(b. 1520, d. 1571/2) 

pub. 1574 Rex autem David; Jean de Castro 

Pt. 1: Rex autem David 

Pt. 2: Planxit autem 

(b. 1540?, d. 1600?) 

c1580 Cum audisset David rex 

pub. 1596 Rex autem David 

Rodrigo de Ceballos 

(b. 1525/50, d. 1581) 

Giovanni de Macque 

(b. 1548-50, d. 1614) 

60 

4 vv. motet 

monophonic 

Meisterton 

Sources 

Königsberg MS 1740 

Padua A 17 

Regensburg, Proske, MS AR 

940/41 

RISM 1521.5, Venice 

RISM 1521.6, Rome 

RISM 1539.11, Lyon 

RISM 1535. 3, Paris 

Göttingen, Niedersächsischen 

Staats- und Universitätsbib., 

4 Mus. V, 3050 

4 vv. motet Florence, MS Panciatichi 27 

Basel, Universität, MS FX 5-9 

Regensburg, Proske, MS AR 

940/41 

Regensburg, Ebenda MS 

B220-222 

München, Universität MS 36 

Symphoniae Jucundae 

4 vv. motet Symphoniae Jucundae 

4 vv. motet; St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 463 

incomplete— 

only two parts 

survive 

solo voice and Tres libros de musica en cifras 

vihuela 

para vihuela 

solo voice and Tres libros de musica en cifras 

vihuela 

para vihuela 

4 vv. motet Aachen, Domarchiv, Magnon- 

Codex 

Regensburg, Proske, AR 891 

RISM 1564.1, Nürnberg 

motet lost 

4 vv. motet RISM 1559.2, Nürnberg 

RISM 1540.7, Augsburg 

8 vv. motet RISM 1564.1, Nürnberg 

London, Brit. Lib., Royal 

Appendix 49-54 

RISM 1552.35 

Verona, Accademia Filarmonica, 

MS 218 

5 vv. motet Toledo, Cath. Lib., MS Mus 6 

3 vv. motet Triciniorum sacrorum, liber unus 

4 vv. motet Granada. Capilla Real, MS 3 

Toledo, Cath. Lib., MS Mus B 7 

6 vv. motet Motectorum, 5, 6, 8vv, liber 

incomplete— primus 

only five parts 

survive

Table A.2: Timeline of David’s Lamentations—Seventeenth-century British settings 2 

Date Title Composer Genre 

before 1616 When David Heard; 

Pt. 1: When David Heard 

Pt. 2: O My Son 

Thomas Weelkes 

(b. c1576, d. 1623) 

before 1616 O Jonathan Thomas Weelkes 

(b. c1576, d. 1623) 

before 1616 And the King Was Moved 

before 1616 When David Heard that 

Absalom 

before 1616 O woe is me for thee 


Absalom 

before 1616 O my Son Absalom; 

Pt. 1: O my son Absalom 

Pt. 2: Saul and Jonathan 


Absalom 

Richard Dering 

(b. c1580, d. 1630) 

John Milton, Sr. 

(b. c1563, d. 1647) 

John Milton, Sr. 

(b. c1563, d. 1647) 

Robert Ramsey 

(d. 1644) 

Giles Farnaby 

(b. c1563, d. 1640) 

William Bearsley 

pub. 1617 Contristatus est Rex David Richard Dering 

(b. c1580, d. 1630) 

pub. 1618 When David Heard that 

Absalom 

Michael East 

(b. c1580, d. 1648) 

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Sources 

6 vv. anthem London, Brit. Lib., MS 29366-68 

London, Brit. Lib., MS 29372-77 

London, Brit. Lib., MS 29427 

Oxford, Bodleian, MS 807-11 


Oxford, Bodleian, MS 389 

Oxford, Christ Church, 56-60 

NY pub. Lib., Drexel MS 4302 

Washington D.C, Folger Lib., MS 

V.a.412 

San Marino, CA, Huntington Lib. MS 

HM 461 




San Marino, CA, Huntington Lib., 

MS EL 25 A 46-51 


Washington D.C., Folger Lib., MS 

V.a.412 



York, Minster, MS M 29 

Brussels MS II.4109 

Washington D.C, Folger Lib., MS 

V.a.412 





6 vv. anthem London, Brit. Lib., MS 29427 

Oxford, Bodleian MS 1162-7 

5 vv. anthem; 

incomplete—alto 

part only 

5 vv. anthem; 

incomplete—no 

quintus 



London, Brit., Lib. MS 29366-8 

Oxford, Bodleian, MS f. 20-24 

5 vv. motet Oxford, Christ Church, MS 881-86, 

Cantiones Sacrae 

6 vv. anthem Fourth Set of Bookes 

2 This list of compositions is based on the information found in Irving Godt, "Prince Henry as Absalom in David's 

Lamentations," Music & Letters 62, no. 3/4 (1981), 328-330. The numbers assigned to the anonymous composers 

are taken from Ralph T. Daniel and Peter Le Huray, The Sources of English Church Music (London: Stainer and 

Bell, 1972).


Date Title Composer Genre Source(s) 

c1618, 

pub. 1622 

When David Heard that 

Absalom 

c1620 O my son Absolon 

Thomas Tomkins 

(b. 1572, d. 1656) 

Anon. 321; 

also attributed to 

Weelkes (doubtful) 

c1622 When David Heard “Mr. Smith” 

Elias Smith? 

early 17 th 

century 

When David Heard that 

Jonathan 

before 1625 O Jonathan, how wert thou 

slain 

before 1641 O Jonathan, thou wast slain 

Pt 1: O Jonathan thou 

wert slain 

Pt. 2: How are the mighty 

fallen 

before 1641 O Jonathan, thou wast slain 

Pt 1: O Jonathan, thou wast 

slain 

Pt. 2: How are the Mighty 

Fallen 

Pt 3: Ye daughters of Israel 

William Bearsley 5 vv. anthem; 

incomplete 

Anon. 276 anthem; 

incomplete—tenor 

Anon. 167 

Anon. 277 

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5 vv. anthem London Brit. Lib., MS 29372-77 

NY Pub Lib., Drexel MS 4180-85 

Songs of 3. 4. 5. & 6. Parts 

Musica Deo sacra 

4 vv. anthem London, Brit. Lib., R.M. 23.1.4 

Oxford, Bodleian, MS f. 17-19 

Washington D.C, Folger, MS 

V.a.412 

5 vv. anthem New York Public Lib., Drexel 

MS 4180-855 

part only 

anthem, 

incomplete 

anthem, 

incomplete 


Washington D.C., Folger Lib., 

MS V.a.412 

Litchfield, Cathedral Lub., 

manuscript additions in John 

Barnard, The First Book of 

Selected Church Musick 

Litchfield, Cathedral Lib., 

additions to Barnard partbooks 

before 1644 How are the Mighty Fall’n Robert Ramsey 6 vv. anthem Glasgow, Euing Lib. MS 

(d. 1644) 

R.d.91 

pub. 1652 O Absolon, my Son Henry Lawes 3 vv. canon Catch that Catch Can, London: 

(b. 1596, d. 1662) 

John Hilton, 1652. 

c1650s When David heard that Anon. 410 anthem; 

San Marino, CA, Huntington, Lib. 

Absalom 

incomplete—bass 

part only 

MS HM 461 

pub. 1668 Then David Mourned 

Thomas Tomkins 5 vv. anthem Musica Deo sacra Deo, London, 

(b. 1572, d. 1656) 

1668 

c. 1670s How Are the Mighty Fallen Michael Wise 3 vv. anthem London, Brit. Lib., MS 17784 

(b. 1647, d. 1687) 

Oxford, Christ Church MS 1246 

c. 1670-85 When David Heard Anon. 411 

3 vv. anthem London, Brit. Lib., MS 33235 

Oxford, Christ Church MS 

623-25 

c. 1690 Thy Beauty, O Israel Henry Aldrich arrangement of Oxford, Christ Church, 

(b. 1648, d. 1710) Wise’s anthem; 

4 vv. & continuo 

MSS Mus. 12, 16, & 614 

late 1600s O Absalom, my son Anon. 253 

6 vv. anthem; London, Brit. Lib., manuscript 

incomplete insertions in John Barnard, The 

First Book of Selected Church 

Musick 

late 1600’s The Beauty of Israel is slain John Walter anthem London, Brit. Lib. MS 22100; 

(b. c1660, d. 1708) 

the piece is only mentioned in 

index, no music.

Table A.3: Timeline of David’s Lamentations—Seventeenth-Nineteenth centuries 

Date Title Composer Genre/ 

Instrumentation 

Source(s) 

pub. 1602 “Fili mi, Absalon” 

Lodovico Viadana 2 mezzo-sopranos, Cento Concerti 

(b. 1560, d. 1627) baritone, & organ Ecclesiastici 

pub. 1602 “Doleo Super te” 

Lodovico Viadana 2 basses & organ Cento Concerti 

(b. 1560, d. 1627) 

Ecclesiastici 

1629 “Fili mi, Absalon” 

Schütz, Heinrich Bass, 4 trombones, Symphoniae Sacrae 

(b. 1585, d. 1672) continuo 

pub. 1655 Lagrime di Davide sparse nel Biagio Marini 

2-4 vv, 2 vlns, organ ? 

miserere 

(b. 1594, d. 1663) 

before 1674 Historia Davidis et Jonathae Giacomo Carissimi (?) SSATB, 2 vlns, & Paris, Natl. Lib., MSS 

(b. 1605, d. 1674 basso continuo 

Vm1 1473 (Brossard) 

1674 Assalone punito 

Pietro Andrea Ziani 

(b. 1616, d. 1684) 

oratorio Vienna, Natl. Lib. 

before 1678 Assalone Paolo Petti 

oratorio; 

Paris, Conservatory Lib. 

(d. 1678) 

5 vv. & instr. 

1681 Doleo super te 

Henry Du Mont petit motet; 

Motets a II. III. et IV. 

(b. 1610, d. 1684) Ct, T, B, continuo parties 

early 1680’s Mors Saulis et Jonathae Marc-Antoine 

oratorio Paris, Natl. Lib., 

Charpentier 

(b. 1643, d. 1704) 

MS Rés Vm 259, iv 

1686 Absalone (L’Assalone) Giovanni Paolo oratorio Vienna, Natl. Lib. 

Colonna 

(b. 1637, d. 1695) 

Paris, Conservatory Lib. 

1688 David et Jonathas 

Marc-Antoine 

tragédie mise en Paris, Natl. Lib., 

Charpentier 

musique; 

MS Rés F924 

(b. 1643, d. 1704) (incomplete) 

1691 L’Absalone ribello Flavio Lanciani 

(b. 1661, d. 1706) 

oratorio lost 

before 1700? La cetra piangente de Davide Giuseppe Pacieri oratorio Naples, Bib. Oratoriana 

nella morte de Gionata (d. 1700 or later) 

dei Filippini 

1704 Assalon punito Antonio Veracini 

(b. 1659-1733) 

oratorio ? 

1705 La superbia punita in Giuseppe Valentini drama sacro lost 

Absalone 

(b. 1681, d. 1753) 

1715 La ribellione d’Assalonne Antonio Caldara 

(b. 1671, d. 1736) 

oratorio Münster, Santini Bib. 

1720 Assalonne 

Antonio Caldara oratorio Vienna, Natl. Lib., 

(b. 1671, d. 1736) 

MS HS 17058 

1721 Davide Francesco Pistocchi 

(b. 1659, d. 1726) 

oratorio lost 

1724 David 

Francesco Conti 

(b. 1681/2, d. 1732) 

oratorio Vienna, Natl. Lib. 

1726 Assalone nemico del padre Giuseppe Porsile oratorio Vienna, Natl. Lib. 

amante 

(b. 1680, d. 1750) 

Vienna, Gesellschaft der 

Musikfreunde (Wgm) 

1728 Gionata Antonio Caldara oratorio Vienna, Gesellschaft (Wgm) 

(b. 1671, d. 1736) 

Vienna, Natl. Lib. 

1733 Gionata Pietro Torri 

(b. 1650, d. 1737) 

oratorio ? 

1736 David’s Lamentation Over William Boyce sacred cantata; Oxford, Bodleian Lib. 

(rev. 1744) Saul and Jonathan 

(b. 1711, d. 1779) 4 vv, & orch 

London, Royal 

College of Music 

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Source(s)/Comments 

pub. 1738 The Beauty of Israel is slain William Knapp 4 vv. anthem A Sett of New Psalm-tunes 

(b. 1698/99, d. 1768) 

and Anthems, Knapp 

Sixteen Anthems, by 

Josiah Flagg 

1738-39 Saul, Act 3 Scene V: 

George F. Handel oratorio oratorio 

“Elegy for Saul and 

Jonathan” 

(b. 1685, d. 1759) 

1739 Assalonne 

Antonio Pampani 

(b. 1705, d. 1775) 

oratorio ? 

1739 L’obbedienza di Gionata Antonio Pampani oratorio Munich, Bayerische 

(b. 1705, d. 1775) 

Staatsbib. 

1738-40 David’s Lamentation Over John Christopher Smith oratorio lost 

Saul and Jonathan 

(b. 1712, d. 1795) 

1743 Der so true als heyllos wider Gregor Joseph Werner oratorio Budapest, Natl. Lib. 

seinen sanfftmüthigen Vatter 

David rebellierende Sohn 

Absolon 

(b. 1693, d. 1766) 

1745 Davide e Gionata Jean-Noël Hamal oratorio Liege, Bib. Conserv. 

(b. 1709, d. 1778) 

Royal de musique 

1747 Jonathas Andrea Bernasconi 

(b. 1706, d. 1784) 

drama sacrum ? 

1751 David Andrea Bernasconi 

(b. 1706, d. 1784) 

drama sacrum ? 

1751 Davide Gennaro Manna oratorio Naples, Bib. Oratoriana dei 

(b. 1715, d. 1779) 

Filippini 

1752 Gionata figliuol di Saule Lorenzo Gibelli oratorio music lost, 

(b. 1718, d. 1812) 

libretto extant 

1756 L’obbedienza di Gionata Ferdinando Bertoni oratorio Darmstadt, Hessische Bib. 

(b. 1725, d. 1813) 

Venice, Bib. Nat. 

Pavia, S. Michele 

1761 Absalon Adolph Carl Kunzen 

(b. 1720, d. 1781) 

oratorio Lübeck, Bib. Hansestadt 

1761 David and Jonathan Charles Barbandt 

(d. c1775) 

oratorio lost 

pub. 1763 O Absalom, my son Charles King 

3 vv. canon A Collection of Canons, 

(b. 1687, d. 1748) 

Catches, and Glees 

pub. 1765 The Beauty of Israel Anonymous 

4 vv. anthem An Introduction to Singing, 

Thomas Pitt? 

by James Hewitt 

1766 David und Jonathan Johann Heinrich Rolle 

(b. 1716, d. 1785) 

musikalisches Eligie pub. 1773, Leipzig 

before 1769 Gionata Giovanni Pescetti 

(b. 1704, d. 1766) 

oratorio Padova, Capella Antoniana 

1771 Jonathas Ferdinando Bertoni oratorio; 

? 

(b. 1725, d. 1813) solo voice & female 

choir 

1771 Davide e Gionathan Carl von Dittersdorf 

(b. 1739, d. 1799) 

oratorio DK-Kk 

1774 David und Jonathas 

Johann Demmler cantata music lost, text in 

(b. 1748, d. 1785) 

Augsburg, Staatsbibl. 

c. 1774 Saul et Gionata Leonardo Leo 

(b. 1694, d. 1744) 

attribution doubtful 

oratorio lost 

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1775 Interitus Absalon 

Ferdinando Bertoni oratorio; 

? 

(b. 1725, d. 1813) solo voices & female 

chorus 

pub. 1778 The Beauty of Israel is Slain John Arnold 

4 vv. anthem Select Harmony, by 

(b. 1715, d. 1792) 

Andrew Law 

pub. 1778 David’s Lamentation William Billings 4 vv. anthem The Singing Master’s 

(b. 1746, d. 1800) 

Assistant, Boston 

1779 Victoria militum David contra Ferdinando Bertoni oratorio; solo voices ? 

Absalon filium Regis 

(b. 1725, d. 1813) & female chorus 

1780 Per la morte di Gionata e di Gian Francesco oratorio ? 

Saulle 

de Majo 

(b. 1732, d. 1770) 

1781 Jonathas Bonaventura Furlanetto 

(b. 1738, d. 1817) 

oratorio Venice, Bibl. del Cons. 

1781 The Beauty of Israel William Billings 

(b. 1746, d. 1800) 

4 vv. anthem Psalm Singer’s Amusement 

1782 Absalon 

Domenico Cimarosa “action sacra” Dresden, Sächsiche Bib. 

(b. 1749, d. 1801) (oratorio) 

Münster, Santini Bib. 

Paris, Natl. Lib. 

London, British Lib. 

Naples, Conserv. Lib. 

Rome, Archivio Filippini 

1785 Absalonis rebellio Bonaventura Furlanetto 

(b. 1738, d. 1817) 


1786 Absalon (La mort d’Absalon) Henri-Montan Berton 

(b. 1767, d. 1844) 

cantata ? 

1787 Davide Angelo DeAngelis 

(d. c1825) 

oratorio Podova, Bib. capitolare 

1789 O Absolom William Savage 

(b. 1720, d. 1789) 

catch Glasgow, Euing Mus. Lib. 

1789 Assalone Angelo Baldan 


(b. 1753, d. 1803) 

Venice, Bib. Naz. Marciana 


1792 Gionata Niccolò Piccinni oratorio Florence, Conserv. Lib. 

(b. 1728, d. 1800) 


1793 Davids Klage am Hermon Johann Königslöw 

(b. 1745, d. 1833) 

oratorio Lübeck, Bib. Hansestadt 

undated, Doleo super te Juan Manuel Olivares 2 vv. motet ? 

before 1797 

(b. 1760, d. 1797) 

1797 Davide e Assalonne Antonio Brunetti oratorio Urbino, Cappella del 

(b? 1767, d? after 1845) 

Sacramento 

undated, The Beauty of Israel is slain Robert Shenton anthem ? 

before 1798 

(b. 1730, d. 1798) 

65





1800 Saul und David im Kriege Johann Königslöw 

(b. 1745, d. 1833) 

oratorio lost 

1819 Assalonne Domenico Cimarosa oratorio Brussells, Bib. Conserv. 

(b. 1749, d. 1801) 

Royal de musique 

1830 David, op. 34 Bernhard Klein 

(b. 1793, d. 1832) 

oratorio ? 

1831 Absalon Friedrich Schneider 

(b. 1756, d. 1853) 

oratorio ? 

1834 David Sigismund Neukomm 

(b. 1778, d. 1858) 

oratorio Paris, Natl. Lib. 

Undated, The Lamentation Edward James Loder sacred song Sacred Songs and Ballads 

before 1840 

(b. 1813, d. 1865) 

1842 Assalomne Gaetano Capocci 

(b. 1811, d. 1898) 

oratorio ? 

1844 Absalom Geo. H. Curtis scena religiosa Washington, D.C., Lib. of 

Congress 

1848 David’s Lament for Absalom L. H. Southard 

sacred song Washington, D.C., Lib. of 

Congress 

1849 Absalom 

Isaac Baker Woodbury oratorio Washington, D.C., Lib. of 

(b. 1819, d. 1858) 

Congress 

The Dulcimer 

pub. 1850 David Charles Horsley 

(b. 1822, d. 1876) 

oratorio 

1852 Oratorio of Absalom George Nelson Allen 

(b. 1812, d. 1877) 

1856 David Georges Bizet 

(b. 1838, d. 1875) 

cantata lost 

before 1859 David Carl Reissiger 

(b. 1798, d. 1859) 

oratorio 

1865 O Absalom, my son! Dudley M. Taylor sacred song, “Dedicated by permission 

voice & piano to J. C. Baron Lethbridge” 

1875 Absalon Achille D. Campisiano opérette bouffe 

1884 King David’s Lament Francis W. Swift 

1888 David E. C. Essex 

1891 David and Saul David Jenkins 

(b. 1848, d. 1915) 

1896 Absalom Johann Stehle 

(b. 1839, d. 1915) 

66 

voice & piano 

oratorio 

oratorio 

chorus and orchestra

Table A.4: Timeline of David’s Lamentations—Twentieth-Twenty-first centuries 



Comments 

1901 Saul and David Carl Nielsen 

(b. 1865, d. 1931) 

opera 

1902 David’s Lament, Op. 15 Angelo Read 

(b. 1854, d. 1926) 

cantata 

1911 David’s Lament 

Blair Fairchild soprano & alto soli, “To Gabriel Dupont” 

from Two Bible Lyrics, op. 29 (b. 1877, d. 1933) chorus, & orchestra 

1919 David und Absalom, op.70 Georg Schumann 

(b. 1866, d. 1952) 

soli and orchestra 

1921, Lamentations de Guilboa Arthur Honegger oratorio 

(rev. 1923) from Le roi David 

(b. 1892, d. 1955) 

1921 La chanson d’Ephraim Arthur Honegger oratorio 

(rev. 1923) from Le roi David 

(b. 1892, d. 1955) 

1922 Absalom Joseph Lincoln Hall 

(b. 1866, d. 1930) 

dramatic cantata 

1925 O Absalom, my son F. Melius Christiansen SATB chorus “for my friend Stanley 

(b. 1871, d. 1955) 

R. Avery…” 

1928 David’s Lament Ross Lee Finney 

(b. 1906, d. 1997) 

choir & keyboard 

1932 David’s Lament for Jonathan Gustav Holst 

3-9 voices 

“for S.P.G.S.” 

from Eight Canons for Equal (b. 1874, d. 1934) (sopranos & altos or 

Voices 

tenors & basses) 

1936 David Maurice Jacobsen 

(b. 1896, d. 1976) 

ballet 

pub. 1937, David mourneth for Absalom Normand Lockwood SSAATTBB chorus “Written at the 

(rev. 1988) 

(b. 1906, d. 2002) 

suggestion of my wife” 

1941 King David’s Lament for Lou Harrison 

solo tenor & piano 

Jonathan 

(b. 1917, d. 2003) 

1946 David Mourns for Absalom David Diamond 

(b. 1915, d. 2005) 

solo voice & piano “To Hildegard Watson” 

1946 Absalom Ned Rorem 

(b. 1923) 

solo voice & piano 

1947 Mourning Scene (from Samuel) Ned Rorem 

solo voice & string “To Lee Hoiby” 

(b. 1923) 

quartet 

1950 Triste estaba el Rey David Joaquin Rodrigo SATB chorus “A Domenico de Paoli” 

from Tres canciones sefardíes (b. 1901, d. 1999) 

1951 David’s Lament for Jonathan Michael Howard countertenor and 

from Seven Songs for 

Countertenor and Piano 

(b. 1922, d. 2002) piano 

1952-53 David; 

Darius Milhaud opera 

Act II Scene 3 

Act IV Scene 4 

(b. 1892, d. 1974) 

1953 Lament of David, op. 169 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 

Mario 

(b. 1895, d. 1968) 

T, double chorus 

1953 Alilot ha Gilboa 

Shlomo Joffe 

cantata 

(Tales of Mt. Gilboa) 

(b. 1909, d. 1995) 

1956 David’s Lament Mátyás Seiber SATB chorus & 

(b. 1905, d. 1960) harp or piano 

1961 My son, my son, Absalom Anna Gallos 

(b. 1920) 

SATB chorus “To Donald F. White” 

1961-62 David’s Lament Over Jonathan Stefan Wolpe 

voice & piano “to Hilda” 

from Six songs from the 

Hebrew 

(b. 1902, d. 1972) 

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Comments 

1962 Planctus Malcolm Williamson Men’s chorus “In memoriam Edward 

(b. 1931, d. 2003) 

Clark” 

1963 Lament for Absalom George F. McKay 

(b. 1899, d. 1970) 

organ 

1968 David Bob Burroughs musical drama for 

(b. 1937) 

children’s chorus 

1968 David’s Lament for Saul and Philip Hagemann SATB 

Jonathan 

(b. 1942) 

1970 And David Wept Ezra Laderman 

(b. 1924) 

cantata/opera 

1971 Absalom, Absalom Carl Johnson 

motet, 

(b. 1935) 

8 part chorus 

1972 Absalom My Son Ethan Haimo 

(b. 1950) 

chorus 

1973 David wept for slain Absalom, Alan Hovhaness SSATBB chorus “for Richard Westenburg” 

Opus 246, No. 1 

(b. 1911, d. 2000) 

1973 David’s Lamentation Lloyd Pfautsch 

(b. 1921, d. 2003) 

SATB chorus “To Howard Swan” 

1974 When David Heard John Chorbajian 

(b. 1936) 

SATB chorus 

1974 O my son Absalom 

Abraham Kaplan SATB chorus & 

from Glorious 

(b. 1931) 

orchestra 

1975 When David Heard Norman Dinerstein SATB chorus “dedicated to the memory 

(b. 1937, d. 1982) 

of Cantor Joseph Cohn” 

1977 O Absalom Elisabeth Lutyens oboe, English horn, 

(b. 1906, d. 1983) violin, viola, & cello 

1977 Absalom Eugene W. Hancock sacred song, 

(b. 1929, d. 1994) baritone & piano 

1979 Absalom, 

Richard L. DeLong voice & keyboard “for John Hanby” 

from Five Sacred Songs (b. 1951, d. 1994) 

1980 When David Heard, 

David Cohen 

SATB chorus “Written for the Bach & 

from Three Motets 

(b. 1927) 

Madrigal Society” 

before Absalom, My Son George Kleinsinger SATB chorus 

1982 

(b. 1914, d. 1982) 

1982 David’s Lament for Jonathan Alan Ridout 

(b. 1934, d. 1996) 

SSAATBB chorus 

1982 When David Heard Jennifer Fowler 

(b. 1939) 

SATB chorus & piano 

1983 David’s Lament Shlomo Joffe 

(b. 1909, d. 1995) 

SATB chorus 

1983 “Triste Estaba el Rey David” Mario Davidovsky voice & chamber 

from Romancero 

(b. 1934) 

ensemble 

1984 David’s Lament Rick Sowash 

SATB “for Bill, Carol, and Amy 

(b. 1950) 

Goldman” 

1985 King David’s Lament for Lou Harrison 

male chorus & 

Jonathan 

from Three Songs 

(b. 1917, d. 2003) chamber ensemble 

1986 Absalom Timothy Whitworth SATB chorus “To Dr. Gordon Paine and 

Smith 

the University Choir of 

Cal. State Fullerton” 

1988 When David Heard Colin Mawby 

(b. 1936) 

SATB chorus & piano 

1993 When David Heard Brett Terry 

(b. 1968) 

SATB chorus 

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1995 Absalom Robert Christensen chorus and orchestra 

69 

Comments 

1995 The Lament of Absalom Francis Wong “Asian Improv” 

saxophone 

1996 Absalom, Absalom Pierce Pettis 

folk song; 

solo voice & guitar 

1996 Absalom León Schidlowsky 

(b. 1931) 

orchestra 

1997 “Absalom, My Absalom” Tim Rice 

Broadway musical 

from King David 

(b. 1944) 

1997 “How Mighty Are the Fallen” Tim Rice 

Broadway musical 

from King David 

(b. 1944) 

1997 David and Absalom Justin H. Rubin 

(b. 1971) 

cantata 

1998 Absalom Dale Jergenson SATB double choir, 

(b. 1935) 

tympani, & piano 

1998 David’s Lament 

Jan Roosendael harp & chamber 

from David and Saul 

(b. 1960, d. 2005) orchestra 

1998 Lamentatio David filii sui Jacob Werner 

baritone, chamber 

Absalom 

(b. 1938) 

ensemble, & organ 

1999 When David Heard Eric Whitacre 

(b. 1970) 

SSAATTBB chorus “for Dr. Ronald Staheli” 

1999, When David Heard Richard Burchard TTTBBB divisi 

rev. 2005 

(b. 1960) 

2000 David Mourns for Absalom Bern Herbolsheimer 

(b. 1948) 

SATB chorus “to Fujio Matayoshi” 

2001 Absalom Alexandra Du Bois violin & prepared 

(b. 1981) 

piano 

2002 Jonathan and David David York 

(b. 1958) 

opera 

2002 King David, the Musical Eyal Bitton 

(b. 1970) 

musical 

2002 Absalom Adam Jones guitar and jazz 

ensemble 

2002 Absalom Jeff Buser 

(b. 1963) 

solo voice & guitar 

2003 Absolon, my son Jonathan Rathbone SSAATTBB chorus “For Dr. Martin Ennis and 

the Chapel Choir of Girton 

College, Cambridge” 

2004 When David Heard 

Paul Crabtree 

SATB chorus “for Magen Solomon and 

from Three Sacred Songs (b. 1960) 

the San Francisco Choral 

Artists” 

2004 Absalom Jeffrey Cobb 

SSAATTBB chorus & 

(b. 1967) 

piano 

2005 When David Heard Tom Wiggall 

(b. 1978) 

SATB chorus 

2005 When David Heard Richard Burchard 

(b. 1960) 

SSATTB divisi “for Dr. Greg Detweiler” 

2006 When David Heard, 

Tom O’ Driscoll SSAATB chorus 

op. 10, no. 1 

(b. 1986) 

2006 Absalom, FIli Mi Nathanael Pangrazio 

(b. 1985) 

chorus

Table A.5: Timeline of Elegies Composed for Prince Henry 3 

Date Title Composer Comments 

c1613 Fair Britain isle William Byrd 

(1540-1623) 

c1613 All lookes be pale, hearts cold alone Thomas Campion 

(1567-1620) 

c1613 Bravely decked, come forth, bright day Thomas Campion 

(1567-1620) 

c1613 Weep forth your tears and do lament John Ward 

(1589-1638) 

“In Memory of Prince Henry” 

c1613 Know you not Thomas Tomkins “Prince Henry, his Funerall 

pub. 1613 O grief, how divers are thy shapes, 

from Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the 

Untimely Death of Prince Henry 

pub. 1613 Tis now dead night, 

from Songs of Mourning 

pub. 1613 Fortune and Glory, 


pub. 1613 So parted you, 


pub. 1613 How like a golden dreame, 


70 

(1572-1656) 

John Coprario 

(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

John Coprario 

(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

John Coprario 

(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

John Coprario 

(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

John Coprario 

(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

pub. 1613 When pale famine, 

John Coprario 


(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

pub. 1613 O poore distracted world, 

John Coprario 


(b. c1570-80, d. 1626) 

before c1615 No object dearer John Ward 

(1589-1638) 

pub. 1615 Dialogues of Sorrow upon the Death of the Robert Ramsey 

Late Prince Henrie 

(d. 1644) 

pub. 1619 Melpomene, bewail thy sisters’ loss Thomas Vautor 

(fl. 1600-1620) 

before c1620 Weep, Brittaynes, weep William Cranford 

(b. late 16 th century, 

d? c1645) 

before c1620 Tis now dead of night Thomas Ford 

(d. 1648) 

undated Sleep fleshlye birth Robert Ramsey 

(d. 1644) 

undated What teares deere Prince Robert Ramsey 

(d. 1644) 

Anthem” 

“To the Most Sacred King James” 

“To the Most Sacred Queen Anne” 

“To the Most High and Mighty 

Prince Charles” 

“To the Most Princely and 

Virtuous, the Lady Elizabeth” 

“To the most Illustrious and 

Mighty Frederick the fifth, Count 

Palatine of the Rhine” 

“To the Most Disconsolate Great 

Britain” 

“To the World” 

“Passions on the death of Prince 

Henry” 

“A passion on the death of Prince 

Henry” 

“A passion on the death of Prince 

Henry” 

3 This list of compositions is based on the information found in Godt, 328-330; however, I have included changes 

that reflect more recent scholarship.

APPENDIX B 

TRANSCRIPTIONS 

71

Montes Gelboe nec ros antiphon 

Saul et Jonathas amabiles antiphon 

72

Doleo super te antiphon 1 

Rex autem David antiphon 2 

1 

The source for this transcription is Walter H. Frere, editor, Antiphonale Salisburiense (Farnborough, England: 

Gregg Press Ltd., 1966), 296-97. 

2 

This transcription is taken from Frank L. Harrison, ed., “Critical Apparatus,” in Polyphonic Music in the 

Fourteenth Century, vol. 15, Motets of English Provenance (Monaco: L’Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre, 1980), 171. The 

source for this transcription is found in Walter H. Frere, ed., Antiphonale Salisburiense, 297. 

73

Rex autem David by Willaert? 

74

Doleo super te Absalon by Benedictus Appenzeller 

76

Rex autem David by Giovanni de Macque 3 

3 This motet has been edited by W. Richard Shindle. Many thanks to him for providing this transcription. 

79

O My Son Absolon, by Anon. 321 

85

Critical Commentary: 

The source for the Altus, Tenor, and Bassus parts is Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS f. 17-19 (partbooks). The 

soprano part, which is missing from the partbooks, is transcribed from London, British Lib., R.M. 23.1.4 

(Benjamin Cosyn’s Virginal Book). 

In the source for the A, T, and B parts (Oxford Bodleian), “Absolon” is the predominant spelling. 

However, the original orthography also reveals an alternate spelling, “Absalon,” which is found in the 

altus (mm. 9, 24, 29, 31, 33), tenor (mm. 8, 26, 28, 30), and bassus (m. 24). 

87

When David Heard by Mr. Smith 

88


In the Tenor part, m. 12, the C is notated in the original source as having the duration of a whole note. 

However it makes more since with the polyphonic structure of the piece for it to be the duration of a 

dotted whole note (tied over the bar in m. 13). 

In the alto part, mm. 22-24, the original source seems to indicate three beats of rest (one breve rest and a 

semibreve rest), however this does not work with the imitative structure. Instead, four beats of rest have 

been given in this transcription. With four beat of rest in the alto part, the melodic figure in the alto 

begins in m. 24, on beat 2 and it repeats in cantus in m. 24, beat 4. This is similar to the melodic figure 

that begins in the bass part in m. 25, beat 2 and is repeated in the quintus in m. 25, beat 4. 

92

O Absolon, my Son by Henry Lawes 4 

4 Many thanks to Dr. David A. Moore, who let me know about this particular setting of the Absalom text. 

93

How Are the Mighty Fallen by Michael Wise 5 

5 Henry Aldrich’s anthem, Thy Beauty O Israel, is based on this anthem by Wise (see pp. 102-109). 

94


The Tenor part is from London, British Library, Add. MS 29481. The Tenor 2 part is from Oxford, 

Christ Church MS Mus. 1246. The Bass part is from London, British Library, Add. MS 17784. 

In the Tenor 1 part, m. 25, beat 4, this quarter note rest was originally notated as a half-note rest in the 

source; however, this does not work with the imitative structure of the other two voices. Therefore, it was 

changed to a quarter-note rest, which works much better with the imitative structure of the other two 

parts. 

98

When David Heard by Anon. 411 

99

100


The title of this piece in Add. MS 33235 is “David’s Song upon Absalon.” However, this piece is listed 

as “When David Heard” in Oxford, Christ Church, MS f. 623-625 and in Sources of English Church 

Music, by Ralph T. Daniel and Peter Le Huray. 

101

Thy Beauty, O Israel by Henry Aldrich 6 

6 This anthem is based on the anthem How are the Mighty Fallen by Michael Wise (see pp. 94-98). 

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

APPENDIX C 

HUMAN SUBJECTS APPROVAL 

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111

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 

John D. Spilker received a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2004 from Brigham Young 

University (Provo, Utah) and a Master of Music in Historical Musicology in 2006 from Florida 

State University (Tallahassee, Florida). He gave a presentation about “The International Musical 

Performance Index and the BYU Music Thesaurus Project” at the 2003 Annual Conference for 

the International Association of Music Libraries. John also read a paper, “The Context and 

Tradition of David’s Lamentations from the Middle Ages to the Late Renaissance,” at the 2006 

Annual Meeting for the American Musicological Society, Southern Chapter. He has published 

an article in 2005 in Fontes Musicae Artis: The Journal of the International Association of 

Libraries (vol. 52, no. 1) entitled “Towards an International Music Thesaurus.” 

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