Audite gentes (Giovanni Legrenzi)

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  • (Posted 2006-08-28)  CPDL #12426:  IMSLP.png
Editor: Jolando Scarpa (submitted 2006-08-28).   Score information: Letter, 33 pages, 934 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Audite gentes
Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SS
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1660 in Sentimenti devoti, no. 2
Description: #5 of 5 Mottetti a 2 voci

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Audi gentes et intelligite populi vias Domini
Quid gloriamini in malitia
Et divina amoris flammas contemnitis.

Quid vanitatem mundi quaeritis
Et coelestia bona despiscitis?
Sunt penaces mundi honores.
Dat inania vanus amor.

Inter coelites non clamor
Non stat fletus, non languores,
Sunt penaces mundi honores.

Solus Deus, vera vita
Coeli nobis pandit bona
Paradisi quae dat dona
Gaudia parant infinita.

Attendite gentes
Et quam vobis preparavit
Dominus concupiscite gloriam.

Delectamini in Domino
Et dabit vobis petitiones cordis.
Diligite Deum et exaltabit vos
In atrio sancto suo.

Ad Dominum clamate et exaudiet vos
In omni tribulatione vestra.
Habet coelum omne bonum.

Mundus autem dat maerores
Donet gaudia sive amores
Semper est inane domum
Habet coelum omne bonum.