Gratia sola Dei (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2016-10-11)  CPDL #41406:    (MIDI)    

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2016-10-11).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 159 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from original 1569 print. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note-values.

General Information

Title: Gratia sola Dei
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1569 in Cantiones aliquot 5 vocum, no. 13
    2nd published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 151
Description: 3-part motet.

1. Gratia sola Dei - for 5 voices: SATTB

2. Legitimo ergo nihil - for 4 voices: ATTB

3. Res mira ignoti - for 6 voices: SSATTB

Composed for the wedding of Wilhelm of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine

Original text and translations

Latin text

‘’’Gratia sola Dei’’’ pie in omnibus omnia adimplet virtute aeterna caelesti et amore creatis
in nostris almus vigeat quoque cordibus ardor
lege sacra statuit cunctisque amor imperet unus
hinc reduces qui nos caelo asserat atque beatos efficiat virtus aequa
almo in amore recumbit.

Legitimo ergo nihil natura invenit amore majus,
connubii unde ferax fit copula fidi
vis sacra amicitiae rata confirmatio amoris
solus amans quod amare iuvat, faeliciter ardet.

Res mira, ignoti quod et illaquentur amore;
emicat accensis per famam mentibus ardor nocte silente magis,
dum mutua flamma per artus errans
alta trahit suspiria pectore ab imo
amplexus taedet longum expectare jugales.