Quis dabit pacem (Heinrich Isaac)

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• (Posted 2013-10-23)  CPDL #30407:       

Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2013-10-23).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 387 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Full score and parts (SA + TB).

General Information

Title: Quis dabit pacem
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Lyricist: Virgil

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Motet, Lament on the death of Lorenzo de Medici (1492)

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1515-1516 in Bibliotheque Nationale de France MS NAF 1817, no. 40
    Manuscript c.1530 in I-Bc MS Q.20, no. 24
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Quis dabit pacem populo timenti?
Si quid irati superi per urbes
Jusserint nasci, iacet omnibus par?
Quem parem tellus genuit tonanti?
Planctus immensas resonet per urbes:
Nulla te terris rapiet vetustas.
Tu comes Phoebo comes ibis astris.
Ante nascetur seges in profundo,
Vel fretum dulci resonabit unda.
Ante discedet glacialis urse
et ponto vetito fruetur.

Quam tuas laudes populi quiescant.
Dive pax orbis medice, qui nostros casus
in terris miseratus olim?
Maxima Phoebi soboles, ex alto
redde, Laurenti.
Cita mors ex orbe quam tulit secum.
Miseri precamur
Undique pacem.
Amen.