Heu quantus dolor (Orlando di Lasso)
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- CPDL #29493:
- Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2013-06-23). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 75 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Magnum opus musicum, 1604. Original key (chiavi naturali) and note-values. Editorial musica ficta clearly indicated. Lilypond version: 2.16.2
General Information
Title: Heu quantus dolor
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1562 (Sacrae cantiones quinque vocum ..., Nuremberg)
Description: The piece is in the style of a motet, it was also published as part of a motet collection, though it has secular Latin text in distichon form.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Heu quantus dolor et turbatis anxia cura
mentibus est tacitas, occuluisse faces,
mors optanda magis quod si sua funera passis,
nullus ab occulto restat amore dolor.
English translation
Alas, how great the pain and how many the distressing hardships
for troubled minds to have concealed torches of love unspoken!
Death is more to be hoped for since for those who have suffered their own demise
no pain from secret love remains.