Mortalium jucunditas (Orlando di Lasso)

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(Posted 2021-12-16) CPDL #67143:

• Original key (high chiavette):

• Transposed down a minor third:

• Transposed down a fourth:

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2021-12-16). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 100 kB Copyright: CPDL

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

General Information

Title: Mortalium jucunditas
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
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. 12
2nd published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 296
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Mortalium jucunditas
volucris et pendula
movetur instar turbinis
quam nix agit sedula,
quid ergo
confiditis in gloria?

Qui dives est penuriam
formidat ignobilem
instabilis fati rotam
semper timet nobilem,
degitque
vitam prope fallibilem.

Qui pauper est nihil timet
nihil potest perdere,
sed spe bona laetus sedet
nam sperat acquirere,
discitque
virtutem Deum colere.