Tota vita peregrinamur (Cornelius Canis)

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• (Posted 2025-08-06)  CPDL #86224:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-08-06).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 106 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third.

General Information

Title: Tota vita peregrinamur
Composer: Cornelius Canis
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1548 in Cantiones selectissimae liber primus (ed. Sigmund Salminger), no. 5
    2nd published: 1553 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum, liber 2 (Tielman Susato), no. 18
Description: Published by Philipp Ulhart, Augsburg, 1548

Original text and translations

Latin text

Tota vita peregrinamur homines tempore breve
et erum noso effugiunt.
Si quidem dies nostri
et sine spe transiguntur,
qui descendit ad inferos
non redibit nec cognoscetur amplius.

Quare afflictis data est lux
et ad quid vita calamitosa
hominibus miseris undecumque impeditis
quos praecipitat stultitia
et opprimiat malitia quique damna
ut praevideant non tamen effugient.