Rectius vives (Alexander Utendal)

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• (Posted 2023-07-25)  CPDL #74667:         

Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2023-07-25).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 161 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Rectius vives
Composer: Alexander Utendal
Lyricist: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1577 in Cantiones sacrae, Liber 3, no. 20
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

Rectius vives, Licini, nec altum
semper urgendo neque dum procellas
cautus horrescis, nimium premendo
litus iniquum.

Auream quisquis mediocritatem
diligit tutus caret obsoleti
sordibus tecti, caret in videnda
sobrius aula.

Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens
pinus et celsæ graviore casu
decidunt turres, feriuntque summos
fulmina montes.

Sperat infestis, metuit secundis
alteram sortem bene præparatum
pectus, informes hyemes reducit
Iuppiter, idem

submovet. Non, si male nunc, et olim
sic erit, quondam cithara tacentem
suscitat Musam, neque semper arcum
tendit Apollo.

Rebus angustis animosus atque
fortis appare, sapienter idem
contrahes vento nimium secundo
turgida vela.