Euge serve bone (Jacob Handl)

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Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-09-02). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 137 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

Title: Euge serve bone
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Antiphon

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.

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

Latin text

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

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.