Euge serve bone (Jacob Handl)

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  • (Posted 2025-09-02)  CPDL #86625:     
Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-09-02).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 137 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Euge serve bone
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: SacredMotetAntiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 62
Description: Motet for the Common of a Confessor not a Pope.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Euge serve bone.

Latin.png Latin text

Euge serve bone et fidelis,
quia in pauca fuisti fidelis,
supra multa te constituam:
intra in gaudium Domini tui.

English.png English translation

Well done, good and faithful servant;
because you have been faithful over a few things,
I will set you over many:
enter into the joy of your Lord.