Nunc gaudere licet (Orlando di Lasso)

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(Posted 2018-03-01) CPDL #48953:

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-03-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 73 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Selectissimae cantiones, 1579, Nuremberg. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note values.

General Information

Title: Nunc gaudere licet
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:

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

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1568 in Selectissimae cantiones, no. 1.36
2nd published: 1569 in Vingtieme livre de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard), Edition 1, no. 18
3rd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 96
4th published: 1579 in Selectissimae cantiones 1579, no. 42
5th published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 472
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Original text and translations

Latin text

Nunc gaudere licet, dolor hinc et cura,
bibendum est ut lex postulat et jubet magister.
Laetitiae, quoniam patri rediere sacrata bacchanalia,
gaudeamus omnes.