De profundis (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #22357: 

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2010-09-24).   Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 607 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Notation here is a tone higher than the original, probably with note values halved. Translation and presentation by John Hetland and The Renaissance Street Singers.

• CPDL #02831:   

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2001-07-10).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 177 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: 10 sections, Contralto part is in Tenor clef

CPDL #27151:   Finale 2011 

Editor: Kurt Pages (submitted 2012-09-12).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 163 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transposition of CPDL #02831 a whole tone higher (equivalent to the pitch of Orlando di Lasso's time); with bar numbers. -

Revised (3 corrections) according to the new work edition "Orlando di Lasso: Sämtliche Werke, Neue Folge, Vol. 26, Die sieben Bußpsalmen mit der Motette Laudes Domini. - Kassel (et al.), 1995. - p. 173-185":
1) interchange of the two tenor parts: tenor 1 is "quinta vox" (= tenor 2), tenor 2 is "tenor" (= tenor 1)
2) bar 97, quinta vox, 2nd note "c" (not "c#")
3) addition of missing bar 110

General Information

Title: VI. Psalmus Poenitentialis - De Profundis
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 5 and 6vv   Voicings: SATTB or SSATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1584

Description: Penitential Psalm No. 6: Psalm 129 (Hebrew 130) plus Doxology. It's in five voices, SATTB, until the second half of the Gloria Patri, which adds a soprano divisi (to the final 25 bars of a piece with 165/166 measures). Title of the first printing (Munich 1584): "Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales ... his accessit Psalmus Laudate Dominum de coelis"

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 130 and Gloria Patri.