Scribantur (Orlando di Lasso)

Music files

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2016-08-28). Score information: A4, 1 page, 51 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: For two tenors. 19th part of 5th Penitential Psalm.

Editor: Paul Thomas May (submitted 2016-08-01). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 70 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: AB Voicing, C Major. Contains shorthand solfege markings above the staves.

Editor: Rachele Orlando (submitted 2007-11-15). Score information: A4, 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Editor: Sheila Crossey (submitted 2004-12-01). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 53 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: #13 from Bicinias

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2004-09-14). Score information: A4, 1 page, 15 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: ST voicing. Scroll down to 13. Scribantur hæc in generatione altera.

Title: Scribantur
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 2vv Voicings: TT, SA or ST
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales, no. 5.19
2nd published: 1591 in Compendium musicae (ed. Adam Gumpelzhaimer), Edition 1, no. 133
3rd published: 1591 in Bicinia sacra (ed. Friedrich Lindner), no. 2
4th published: 1610 in Bicinia Orlandi (ed. Maternum Beringer), no. 13
Description: Bicinia, sive cantiones (1609). Verse 19 of the Fifth penitential psalm.

Latin text

Scribantur haec in generatione altera
Et populus qui creabitur, laudabit Dominum.

English translation

This shall be written for the next generation
And the people who shall be created shall praise the Lord.