Stet quicumque volet potens (Orlando di Lasso)

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  • (Posted 2015-05-18)  CPDL #35456: 
A4 size:   (MIDI)    
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Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2015-05-18).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Original pitch (chiavi naturali) and note-values.

General Information

Title: Stet quicumque volet potens
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Senecacreate page

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: SecularMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1556 in Il primo libro de mottetti a 5-6 voci, no. 3
    2nd published: 1566 in Sacrae cantiones liber tertius, no. 8
    3rd published: 1568 in Selectissimae cantiones, no. 2.3
    4th published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 79
    5th published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique, Edition 2, no. 140
    6th published: 1579 in Altera pars selectissimarum cantionum, no. 3
    7th published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 301
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Stet quicumque volet potens
aulae culmine lubrico,
me dulcis saturet quies
obscuro positus loco,
leni perfruar otio,
nullis nota Quiritibus
aetas per tacitum fluat.

Sic cum transierint mei
nullo cum strepitu dies,
obscurus moriar senex,
illi mors gravis incubat
qui notus nimis omnibus,
ignotus moritur sibi.