Angelicos cives (Hans Leo Hassler)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2020-10-25).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 410 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Edition offered at published pitch for SSSATTB or transposed down a fourth for AAATTBB

General Information

Title: Angelicos cives
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler
Lyricist: Prosper of Aquitainecreate page

Number of voices: 7vv   Voicings: SSSATTB or AAATTBB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1601 in Sacri concentus. Reissued in 1612, no. 32
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Angelicos cives, et Christi in membra renatos
Non trahat ad veterem carnis origo hominem:
Multa quidem in nostros bona mundus procreat usus,
Et pleno tellus servit opima sinu.
Sed terræ hospitibus cæli super astra vocatis.
Virtutis palma est supernere blanda soli,
Et sic præsentis spatium transcurrere vitaæ,
Ipsa peregrinis ne via sit laqueus:
Nam declinantes pro summis ferre laborem,
Terrenorum avidos infima suscipient.