Beatus ille qui procul negotiis (Orlando di Lasso)

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  • (Posted 2018-03-19)  CPDL #49089: 
Original key (high chiavette):   (MIDI)    
Transposed down a minor third:   (MIDI)  
Transposed down a fourth:   (MIDI)   - Alto in tenor clef
Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-03-19).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 138 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from 1569 print. Original note values.

General Information

Title: Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Horace

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: SecularMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1569 in Cantiones aliquot 5 vocum, no. 3
    2nd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 81
    3rd published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique, Edition 2, no. 146
    4th published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 297
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
 ut prisca gens mortalium
paterna rura bobus exercet suis
 solutus omni faenore
nec excitatur classico miles truci
 nec horret iratum mare
forumque vitat et superbum civium
 potentiorum limina.

Ergo aut adulta vitium propagine
 altas maritat populos
aut in reducta valle mugientium
 prospectat errantes greges
inutilesque falce ramos amputans
 feliciores inserit
aut pressa puris mella condit amphoris
 aut tondet infirmas oves.

Libet jacere modo sub antiqua ilice
 modo in tenaci gramine
labuntur altis interim ripis aquae
 queruntur in silvis aves
fontesque limphis obstrepunt manantibus
 somnos quod invitet leves.
Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
 ut prisca gens mortalium
paterna rura bobus exercet suis.