Quid trepidas (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2012-11-05)  CPDL #27546:    (MIDI)    

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2012-11-05).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 173 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Magnum opus musicum, 1604. Original key (chiavi naturali, C1, C3, C3. C4. F4, F5) and note values. Alto parts in tenor clef. Midi files zipped.

General Information

Title: Quid trepidas
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATBB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1570 in Selectiorum aliquot cantionum sacrarum 6 vocum, no. 2
    2nd published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 319
Description: Composed for the wedding of Wilhelm von Bayern (William heir to the Duke of Bavaria) and Renata von Lothringen (Renata of Lorraine) in 1568.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Quid trepidas, quid, Musa, times, quid tarda moraris?
 Percute dulcisonae fila canora lyrae.
Nunc metus atque dolor, nunc anxia cura valeto,
 haec etenim suadet gaudia summa dies
qua castum ingreditur, Guilelme, Renata cubile
 inclite Dux, thalamum casta propago tuum.

Gaudeat exultetque ducum stirps inclita Bojum,
 gaudeat, exultet stirps Lotaringa potens,
connubio hoc etenim stabili gens utraque clara
 jungitur aeterno foedere, pace bona.
Hic igitur thalamus precor ut, Dux inclite, felix sit
 Guilelme tibi, sitque Renata tibi.