Donec gratus eram tibi (Cipriano de Rore)

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• (Posted 2021-12-15)  CPDL #67126:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2021-12-15).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 150 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. ms. B1. Original key and note-values.

General Information

Title: Donec gratus eram tibi
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist: Horace
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SSAT.ATTB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1559 in 26 Motets, no. 3
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

 'Donec gratus eram tibi
nec quisquam potior brachia candidae
  cervici iuvenis dabat,
Persarum vigui rege beatior.'

  'Donec non alia magis
arsisti neque erat Lydia post Chloen,
   multi Lydia nominis,
Romana vigui clarior Ilia.'

  'Me nunc Thressa Chloe regit,
dulces docta modos et citharae sciens,
   pro qua non metuam mori,
si parcent animae fata superstiti.'

  'Me torret face mutua
Thurini Calais filius Ornyti,
   pro quo bis patiar mori,
si parcent puero fata superstiti.'

  'Quid si prisca redit Venus
diductosque iugo cogit aeneo,
   si flava excutitur Chloe
reiectaeque patet ianua Lydiae?'

  'Quamquam sidere pulchrior
ille est, tu levior cortice et improbo
   iracundior Hadria,
tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens.'