Media vita (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #27654:  LilyPond

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2012-11-24).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Magnum Opus Musicum, 1604. Original pitch (chiavi naturali, soprano however in G2 clef) and note values. Lilypond version 2.14.0

• CPDL #19824: This edition has been withdrawn at the request of the editor. CPDL #19824: Lassus_Media_vita_-_modern_clefs_+_ligatures.pdf Lassus_Media_vita_-_modern_clefs_+_ligatures.mid

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

Edition notes: In original key for SATTBarB

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• CPDL #19886: This edition has been withdrawn at the request of the editor. CPDL #19886: Lassus_Media_vita_-_down_m3rd,_modern_clefs_+_ligatures.pdf

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

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

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General Information

Title: Media vita
Composer: Orlando di Lasso

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATBarB

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.