Fama malum (Josquin des Prez)

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• (Posted 2020-04-18)  CPDL #58049:       

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2020-04-18).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 106 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from score at IMSLP. Original key (chiavi naturali), note values halved (as in IMSLP source).

General Information

Title: Fama malum
Composer: Josquin des Prez
Lyricist: Virgil

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ?
  2nd published: 1956 in Das Chorwerk, no. 54.1
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text Fama malum qua non aliud velocius ullum, mobilitate viget, viresque adquirit eundo, parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit. Vergilius: Aeneis, IV, 174-177

English translation Rumour, of all evils the swiftest speed lends her strength, and she wins vigour as she goes, small at first through fear, soon she mounts up to heaven and walks the ground with head hidden in the clouds.