O quam metuendus (Jacob Handl)
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CPDL #29096:
- Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2013-05-11). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 136 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Original pitch; note values halved (quartered in proportio tripla section). Editorial accidentals added.
General Information
Title: O quam metuendus
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAT.ATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Musarum Sioniarum (Nuremberg, 1607)
Description: Handl's polychoral motet for the dedication of a church was published as nos. 36-37 in Praetorius' Musarum Sioniarum (among other sources).
Original text and translations
Latin text
O quam metuendus est locus iste!
Vere non est hic aliud
nisi domus Dei et porta coeli.
In ea, qui petit, accipit,
qui quaerit, invenit,
et pulsanti aperietur. Alleluia.
Orantibus in loco isto,
Dimitte peccata, Domine,
et ostende eis viam bonam,
per quam ambulent,
et da gloriam in loco isto, Alleluia.