Laetabitur deserta et invia (Alvise Balbi)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-07-28). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 103 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Laetabitur deserta et invia
Composer: Ludovico Balbi
Source of text: Isaiah ch.35, v. 1,2
Number of voices: 7vv Voicing: SSAATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1613 in Promptuarium musicum, Pars Tertia, no. 111
Description: Setting for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Laetabitur deserta et invia et exultabit solitudo et florebit quasi lilium.
Germinans germinabit, et exultabit laetabunda et laudans: gloria Libani data est ei, decor Carmeli et Saron, ipsi videbunt gloriam Domini, et decorem Dei nostri.
English translation
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them: and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.