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{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
{{Published|}} | {{Published|1600|in ''Della imperfettione della moderna musica''}} | ||
'''Description:''' The soprano and tenor parts were published without text by Giovanni Maria Artusi in 1600, with the heading ''Quidnam ebrietas''. In 1938, Joseph S Levitan identified the text as an excerpt from one of Horace's Epistles, which takes the form of a dinner invitation to Torquatus, a lawyer. In the source, the tenor appears to end a seventh below the soprano. Implicit modulations allow the second half of the tenor part to be sung a degree lower than notated, thus ending on a consonance. Artusi's publication was the only known source of the piece until the 1950s, when Edward E Lowinsky discovered a partbook containing an alto part; this partbook, although texted, has errors in the text and the underlay does not appear entirely reliable. There is no extant source of the bass part. | '''Description:''' The soprano and tenor parts were published without text by Giovanni Maria Artusi in 1600, with the heading ''Quidnam ebrietas''. In 1938, Joseph S Levitan identified the text as an excerpt from one of Horace's Epistles, which takes the form of a dinner invitation to Torquatus, a lawyer. In the source, the tenor appears to end a seventh below the soprano. Implicit modulations allow the second half of the tenor part to be sung a degree lower than notated, thus ending on a consonance. Artusi's publication was the only known source of the piece until the 1950s, when Edward E Lowinsky discovered a partbook containing an alto part; this partbook, although texted, has errors in the text and the underlay does not appear entirely reliable. There is no extant source of the bass part. | ||
'''External websites:''' http://www.jstor.org/stable/947818 | '''External websites:''' | ||
http://www.jstor.org/stable/947522 | Articles by [http://www.jstor.org/stable/947818 Joseph S Levitan], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/947522 Edward E Lowinsky] and [http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.04.10.1/mto.04.10.1.wibberley1.html Roger Wibberley] | ||
http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.04.10.1/mto.04.10.1.wibberley1.html | |||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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{{Text|Latin| | |||
Quid non ebrietas dissignat? Operta recludit, | |||
Spes iubet esse ratas, ad proelia trudit inertem, | |||
Solicitis animis onus eximit, addocet artes. | |||
Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum? | |||
Contracta quem non in paupertate solutum? | |||
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{{Translation|English| | |||
What cannot be achieved through inebriation? It reveals secrets, | |||
bids hopes to be confirmed, thrusts the inactive into battle, | |||
lifts the burden from troubled minds, teaches new skills. | |||
Whom do brimming glasses not make eloquent? | |||
Whom do they not free from the bonds of poverty? | |||
}} | |||
{{Bottom}} | |||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Renaissance music]] | [[Category:Renaissance music]] |
Revision as of 15:01, 12 January 2019
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- Editor: Adrian Wall (submitted 2019-01-12). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 386 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed up a tone. Note values halved. Text underlay is editorial. Bass part reconstructed editorially.
General Information
Title: Quid non ebrietas
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
{{Published}} is obsolete (code commented out), replaced with {{Pub}} for works and {{PubDatePlace}} for publications.
Description: The soprano and tenor parts were published without text by Giovanni Maria Artusi in 1600, with the heading Quidnam ebrietas. In 1938, Joseph S Levitan identified the text as an excerpt from one of Horace's Epistles, which takes the form of a dinner invitation to Torquatus, a lawyer. In the source, the tenor appears to end a seventh below the soprano. Implicit modulations allow the second half of the tenor part to be sung a degree lower than notated, thus ending on a consonance. Artusi's publication was the only known source of the piece until the 1950s, when Edward E Lowinsky discovered a partbook containing an alto part; this partbook, although texted, has errors in the text and the underlay does not appear entirely reliable. There is no extant source of the bass part.
External websites: Articles by Joseph S Levitan, Edward E Lowinsky and Roger Wibberley
Original text and translations
Latin text Quid non ebrietas dissignat? Operta recludit, |
English translation What cannot be achieved through inebriation? It reveals secrets, |