Orlandus Lassus: Ut queant laxis
(1582, Sacrae cantiones quinque vocum)

Choeur de Chambre de Namur
La Fenice
Jean Tubéry

Score: www.cpdl.org (André Vierendeels)

The piece is originally notated a fifth higher.
It is sung here twice, first a fifth below original pitch (as you can find in the score), then at original pitch (a fifth higher than this score.)


Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
mira gestorum famuli tuorum,
solve polluti labiis reatum,
sancte Joannes.

=== ENGLISH ===

For thy spirit, holy John, to chasten
Lips sin-polluted, fettered tongues to loosen;
So by thy children might thy deeds of wonder
Meetly be chanted.


=== MAGYAR ===

Hogy könnyűlt szívvel csoda tetteidnek
Zenghessék hírét szabadult szolgáid,
Oldd meg, Szent János, kötelét a bűntől
Szennyes ajaknak.

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