Beatus ille qui procul negotiis (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2018-03-19)  CPDL #49089: 

Original pitch (high chiavette):      

Transposed down a minor third:      

Transposed down a fourth:       - Alto in tenor clef

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-03-19).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 145 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1569 print. Original note values.

General Information

Title: Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Horace

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1569 in Cantiones aliquot 5 vocum, no. 3
    2nd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 81
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
  ut prisca gens mortalium
paterna rura bobus exercet suis
  solutus omni faenore
nec excitatur classico miles truci
  nec horret iratum mare
forumque vitat et superbum civium
  potentiorum limina.

Ergo aut adulta vitium propagine
  altas maritat populos
aut in reducta valle mugientium
  prospectat errantes greges
inutilesque falce ramos amputans
  feliciores inserit
aut pressa puris mella condit amphoris
  aut tondet infirmas oves.

Libet jacere modo sub antiqua ilice
  modo in tenaci gramine
labuntur altis interim ripis aquae
  queruntur in silvis aves
fontesque limphis obstrepunt manantibus
  somnos quod invitet leves.
Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
  ut prisca gens mortalium
paterna rura bobus exercet suis.