Quid trepidas (Orlando di Lasso)
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- 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.
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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.