Anni nostri sicut aranea (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #29029: 

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2013-05-04).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Magnum opus musicum, 1604. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note-values. Editorial musica ficta clearly indicated. LilyPond version: 2.16.2

General Information

Title: Anni nostri sicut aranea
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1566 (Sacrae cantiones … liber quartus, 6, 8vv, Venice)

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur,
dies annorum nostrorum in ipsis septuaginta anni,
si autem potentatibus, octoginta anni,
et amplius eorum labor et dolor.
(Ps. 89;9b-10)

English translation

Our years shall be considered as a spider,
The days of our years in them are seventy years.
But if in the strong, they be eighty years,
and what is more of them is labour and sorrow.

Hungarian translation

A mi esztendeink pókhálók gyanánt tekinthetők;
a mi éveink napjai hetven esztendő,
jó erőben, nyolcvan esztendő,
s mi azok fölött van, fáradság és fájdalom.