Is this title correct?

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Hello everyone, I composed a little 4-part chorale that I want to title “Creation for four voices”, the problem is that I want the title in Latin (I have stopped studying Latin since this year started), this is my attempt at translating it:
Creation → Creatio (Nominative singular)
Four → Quattuor
Voices → Vocibus (Ablative Plural)
For → Enim (Not sure about this one)

Creatio Enim Quattuor Vocibus

Have a good day.

EDIT: Here it’s the composition, it’s mostly to exercise some concepts that I saw in harmony class, nothing special.
Written: https://imgur.com/a/Nat5Ojj
Audio:https://soundcloud.com/musicoelian/creatio_no1?si=c7a0dfb163c545b9a42f40dca82d78fc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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The enim is not necessary. The for is covered in the form of voices, vocibus.

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Either replace enim with in or, better, use the genitive: quattuor vocum. Ablative without a preposition seems strange here.

Creatio is not equivalent to English “creation” in the sense of an artistic endeavor.

https://logeion.uchicago.edu/creatio

You might want to think about a word like concentus:

https://logeion.uchicago.edu/concentus

Or the Greek equivalent, symphonia (if that doesn’t sound too much like English “symphony” with its associations):

https://logeion.uchicago.edu/symphonia

Concentus/symphonia quattuor vocum.

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Harnoncourt founded the concentus musicus Wien. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentus_Musicus_Wien

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Hi all, cantus might be simpler, ie cantus quattuor uocum. Cheers, Chad

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Another thought would be:

cantus utens quattuor vocibus

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Hi Ronolio, I’d suggest there that the participle is personifying cantus, which occurs far more freely in modern languages than in Latin. There are useful notes on this by Bradley in his Aids to writing Latin prose from secs 28 on and particularly at sec. 32.:

https://archive.org/details/aidstowritinglat0000ggbr/page/32/mode/2up

The genitive uocum (which modifies cantus several times in literature, e.g. Cic. S. Rosc. 134) has been used in the title of musical pieces, e.g.

https://archive.org/details/imslp-brevis-quatuor-vocum-gabrieli-andrea/PMLP107991-Gabrieli%2C_Andrea%2C_Missa_Brevis_Quatuor_Vocum.Complete_score._Color/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/ybimslp01499/page/n1/mode/2up

https://www.gonnelli.it/uk/auction-0022/isnardi-paolo-cantus-tenor-missae-quatuor-.asp

Cheers, Chad

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Hi everyone, thanks for your responses. I will use cb suggestion.

Have a good day