Pronuba Juno (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2018-01-03)  CPDL #48277:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-01-03).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #22051, with minor corrections to the underlay. Transposed down a minor 3rd for SSAA and note values halved. Musica ficta are editorial.

• (Posted 2010-09-02)  CPDL #22051:        (Sibelius 2)

Editor: Dries Fonteyn (submitted 2010-08-04).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: Pronuba Juno
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SSSA or SSAA
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1570 in Dixiesme livre de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard), Edition 2, no. 4
Description: The text of this motet is a epithalamium (a poem written for a wedding, more specifically for the bride).

Original text and translations

Latin text Pronuba Juno tibi det longae tempora vitae, det sponsae gaudia blanda tuae laetitiaeque datur Bacchus cui pocula spumant et capro celebrant orgia Bessarides. Floricomus, mollis formosus, blandus honestus, ad laetos thalamos carmina pangat Hymen, O sponsum sponsam natos melioribus annis fac nova conjugii quos facit esse deos connubialis, hymenoee, hymen.

Dutch translation Moge de goddin Juno jou een lang leven schenken, moge ze je belonen met de aangename vreugde van je bruid, en ook Bacchus wenst jullie geluk, die schuimbekt en waarvan zijn Bessariden met een geit hun orgieën vieren. Want bedekt met bloemen, zacht, mooi, gevleid en eerbaar, laat Hymen gezangen schrijven voor de blije huwelijkskamers. O bruidegom en bruid, betere jaren komen er nu aan, dit frisse huwelijksvuur maakt jullie tot Goden, O Hymen, zing!

English translation May Juno, the bride's attendant, grant you long life, may she give your bride seductive charms. Bacchus is on hand to bring joy, his goblets foaming: his devotees, the Bacchants, in their orgies feast on a goat. Hymen, crowned with flowers, soft, charming, alluring, handsome, composes songs for the delightful wedding chambers. Let the groom and bride live to know better years: renew those whom Hymen makes gods of wedlock. Translation by Mick Swithinbank