Cor mundus militat (Reimondo Ballestra)

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• (Posted 2015-10-09)  CPDL #37140:  MusicXML

Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2015-10-09).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Cur mundus militat
Composer: Reimondo Ballestra
Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: Parnassus Musicus Ferdinandæus-1615

Description: Setting of the 1st and 6th verse

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Latin text

Cur mundus militat sub vana gloria,
Cuius prosperitas est transitoria?
Tam cito labitur eius potentia,
Quam vasa figuli, quæ sunt fragilia.

Tot clari proceres, tot rerum spatia,
Tot ora præsulum, tot regna fortia,
Tot mundi principes, tanta potentia,
In ictu oculi claudentur omnia!