Beau le cristal (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2020-10-22)  CPDL #60985:     

Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2020-10-22).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 214 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transposed down a tone for SATB.

• (Posted 2015-10-19)  CPDL #37253: 

Original key - A4 size:         - A4 size

Original key - Letter size:       - Letter size

Transposed down a fourth:  

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2015-10-19).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original note-values. French spelling modernised.

General Information

Title: Beau le cristal
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1576 in Les meslanges, tant en vers latins qu’en ryme francoyse, no.  
    2nd published: 1576 in Le thresor de musique, Edition 1, no. 49
    3rd published: 1577 in Vingtuniesme livre de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard), no. 3
    4th published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique, Edition 2, no. 52
    5th published: 1592 in La fleur des chansons, no. 34
Description: Parodied as Magnificat Beau le cristal

Original text and translations

French text

Beau le cristal, beau l'albâtre et l'ivoire,
beau le porphire et le jaspe luisant,
et beau est l'or des beaux métaux la gloire,
beau le rubis aux doigts hautains duisant,
beau de la terre est le fruit et plaisant,
beau est le vaincre où tant d'honneur abonde,
mais des vainqueurs les débats appaisant,
belle la paix, seule embellit le monde.