Infelix ego (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2012-08-05)  CPDL #26899: 

• Original key (low chiavette):   (MIDI)     - Alto parts in octave transposed violin clef.

• Transposed up a minor third:   (MIDI)  

• Transposed up a fourth:   (MIDI)    

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2012-08-05).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 146 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1566 print. Original note values. In three parts, second part is for 4 voices (TBarBB). 3 midi files, one for each part, zipped.

General Information

Title: Infelix ego
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Girolamo Savonarola

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: ATTBarBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1566 in Sacrae cantiones liber quartus, no. 11
    2nd published: 1568 in Selectissimae cantiones, no. 1.18
    3rd published: 1579 in Selectissimae cantiones 1579, no. 21
    4th published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 354
Description: A setting of the beginning of the Meditation on the Miserere by Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98), written the day before his execution for heresy.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Infelix ego.