Converte Domine (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-06-12)  CPDL #85409:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-06-12).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 156 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Converte Domine
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Esther 13:17
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 1, no. 68
Description: Motet for Lent.

Original text and translations

Latin text Converte, Domine, luctum nostrum in gaudium, ut viventes laudemus nomen tuum, et ne perdas ora canentium te, Domine Deus noster.

English translation Turn, O Lord, our mourning into joy, so that, while we live, we may praise your name, and do not silence the mouths of those who sing to you, O Lord our God.