Beatus ille qui procul negotiis (Orlando di Lasso)
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- (Posted 2018-03-19) CPDL #49089:
- Original pitch (high chiavette): (MIDI)
- Transposed down a minor third: (MIDI)
- Transposed down a fourth: (MIDI) - 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.