Quare de vulva eduxisti me (1582) (Orlando di Lasso)
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- Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2018-03-20). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 103 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: transposed a minor third higher
General Information
Title: ''Quare de vulva eduxisti me (2nda pars Dimitte me ergo) Lassus published another setting in 1565.
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Job create page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1582 in Lectiones sacrae novem, no. 9
Description: last of 9 Lessons for Matins of the Dead.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Quare de vulva eduxisti me?
qui ultinam consumptus essem,
ne oculus me videret!
Fuissem quasi non essem,
de utero translatus ad tumulum.
Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi?
Dimitte me ergo, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum:
ante quam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam
et opertam mortis caligine,
ter miseriae et tenebrarum,
ubi umbra mortis, et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.