O quantus luctus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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• CPDL #26762:  Capella

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-07-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 40 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original key and note values.

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Title: O quantus luctus
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet for the feast of St. Martin

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1563, Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum … liber primus, 4vv, Rome

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Original text and translations

Latin text

O quantus luctus hominum,
quanta praecipue lamenta monachorum,
et virginum chorus:
quia pium est gaudere Martino,
et pium est flere Martinum.

English translation

Oh, what great mourning of men,
and great were the lamentations of monks,
and of the choir of virgins,
because it is a good thing to rejoice in Martin,
and it is a good thing to weep.