Alleluia. Ardens est cor meum (Jacob Handl)

Music files

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-07-10). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 146 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

Title: Alleluia. Ardens est cor meum
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 2, no. 42
Description: Lauds Antiphon for the feast of Mary Magdalene. Also a motet for Easter.

Original text and translations may be found at Ardens est cor meum.

Latin text

Alleluia.
Ardens est cor meum;
desidero videre Dominum meum.
Quaero et non invenio ubi posuerunt eum.
Alleluia.

English translation

Alleluia.
My heart is burning;
I long to see the Lord.
I seek and cannot find where they have lain him.
Alleluia.