Non potest arbor bona (Giulio Osculati)

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• (Posted 2025-07-04)  CPDL #85780:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-07-04).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Correction: in Tenor Secundus in bars 7-8, the text should read 'arbor bona'.

General Information

Title: Non potest arbor bona
Composer: Giulio Osculati
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1609 in Liber primus motectorum
    2nd published: 1617 in Promptuarium musicum, Pars Quarta, no. 27
Description: Published by Anton Bertram & Paul Ledertz, Strasbourg, 1617. Could easily, perhaps with minor adjustments to the bass part, be performed a cappella.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Non potest arbor bona fructus malos facere
neque arbor mala fructus bonos facere.

Omnis arbor quae non facit fructum bonum
excidetur et in ignem mittetur.