Labore primus Hercules (Cipriano de Rore)

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• (Posted 2023-12-03)  CPDL #77796:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2023-12-03).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 92 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. B1. Original key (high chiavette) and note values.

General Information

Title: Labore primus Hercules
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1559 in 26 Motets, no. 14
Description: A comparison between the "first" (the mythological) and the "second" (Ercole d'Este) Hercules, praising this latter.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Labore primus Hercules
oppressit urbes barbaras
a gente cultas improba.

Urbes secundus Hercules
virtute pulchras erigit,
vitae colendas integris.

Suscepit ille corporis
horrenda bella viribus,
hic mentis alto munere
pacem reponit auream.