Media vita (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #19824:

Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2009-07-21).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: At original pitch for SATTBarB

• CPDL #19886:

Editor: Edward Tambling (submitted 2009-08-02).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 99 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third from original pitch for ATTBarBB

General Information

Title: Media vita
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 6vv  Voicing: SAATBB or ATTBBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1573

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Media vita in morte sumus
Quem quærimus adjutorem nisi te, Domine?
Qui pro peccatis nostris juste irasceris
Sancte Deus, Sancte fortis, Sancte et misericors Salvator, Amaræ morti ne tradas nos.

English translation

In the midst of life we are in death
of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord,
who for our sins art justly displeased?
O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.