Cum essem parvulus (Orlando di Lasso)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	File details
	Help

• CPDL #04984: 

Editor: Kelvin Smith (submitted 2003-05-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 362 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

• CPDL #01549:    Finale 2000 

Editor: Marc Vilain (submitted 2000-10-27).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 188 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Finale file is zipped.

Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: m51: bass last note should not be F#; m39 underlay for all other parts should match soprano on "facie"; m78 -rum missing -- Vaarky 22:02, 26 November 2011 (CST)

General Information

Title: Cum essem parvulus
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATBB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1582, Mottetta, 6 vocum typis nondum uspiam excusa, Munich

Description:

External websites:

Original text and translations

Latin text

Cum essem parvulus,
Loquebar ut parvulus,
Sapiebam ut parvulus,
Cogitabam ut parvulus,
Quando autem factus sum vir,
Evacuavi quae erant parvuli:
Videmus nunc per speculum ænigmate,
Tunc autem facie ad faciem.
Nunc cognosco ex parte,
Tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum.
Nunc autem manent:
Fides, Spes, Charitas tria hæc:
Major autme horum est Charitas.

English translation

When I was a child,
I talked like a child,
I possessed a child's knowledge,
I thought like a child.
But now that I am a man,
I have put aside childish things.
We now see confused images as through a mirror,
But then [we'll see] directly.
Now I know [things] partially,
Then, however, I will know in the way I have also been known.
Now thus remain these three things:
Faith, Hope, and Charity.
But the greatest of them is Charity.