Tragico tecti sirmate coelites a5 (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2022-02-19)  CPDL #68098: 

• Original key (high chiavette):        

• Transposed down a minor third:      

• Transposed down a fourth:       - Alto in octave transposed violin clef.

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2022-02-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 118 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Magnum Opus Musicum. Original note values.

General Information

Title: Tragico tecti sirmate coelites a5
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Stefano Tucci^{create page}
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1597 in Cantiones 5 vocum ab Orlando di Lasso et huius filio Ferdinando di Lasso, no. 20
    2nd published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 309
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

Tragico tecti sirmate coelites
hominum generi damus inferias,
fataque populis ultima passis
canimus tristi carmine naenias.

Haec loca quondam pinguia frugibus
gelida circum fronde virebant,
vernebat humus candida liliis
spirante per haec rura favonio.

Hic belli geras alta per urbes
setterant celsi moeni a pinnis
hic sparsa crocis atria regum
mollesque toris mollibus aulae.

Nunc praecipiti turbine rerum
ambustae jacent omnia flammis
luridus agros fumus obumbrat
cineresque ducum turbinibus incubant.

Viduata gemunt arva colonis
tellusque suos plorat alumnos
hominum quaestus funera titan
caput horrenti condidit umbra.