In convertendo (Orlando di Lasso)

Music files

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2017-02-26). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 144 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Selectissimae cantiones, 1579. Original pitch and note-values.

Title: In convertendo (2nda pars Convertere Domine)
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
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Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1565 in Modulorum 4-10 vocibus secundum volumen, no. 24
2nd published: 1568 in Selectissimae cantiones, no. 1.43
3rd published: 1568 in Novi thesauri musici (Pietro Giovannelli), Liber 4, no. 14
4th published: 1579 in Selectissimae cantiones 1579
5th published: 1618 in Florilegium Portense, Volume 1, no. 40
Description: The setting of Psalm 125 in two parts. The work is composed for double choir, a higher (in high chiavette) and a lower (in chiavi naturali) choir.

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Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 126.