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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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Variations on More palatino [attributed] Click to Listen [3:51]
Four variations on a secular song. Impulse reverberation added. Instrument: Orgue de salon (1988) - Samples by Eric Bricet and Jean Yves Garet

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Chorale Text
Latin:

More palatino bibimus; ne gutta supersit
unde suam possit musca levare sitem.
Sic bibimus, sic vivimus
dum Academicus.

English:

We drink in palatial style. Let not a drop
remain by which a fly could quench his thirst.
Thus we drink and thus we live
while we are students.

--Courtesy of "Organ Morgan" - Source

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