Euge serve bone (Orazio Vecchi)

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• (Posted 2016-03-26)  CPDL #38999:     

Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2016-03-26).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Edited from facsimile of original print.

• (Posted 2012-06-21)  CPDL #26560:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-06-21).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 30 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Musica Divina Vol. II Liber motettorum (ed. Karl Proske, 1854). Original key and note values.

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Title: Euge serve bone Composer: Orazio Vecchi
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, or ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Antiphon at Vespers from the Common of a Confessor not a Pope

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Motecta, no. 5
    2nd published: 1854 in Musica Divina Vol. II (Carl Proske), p. 153
Description: from the Gospel for Ordinary Time 33 A

Original text and translations

Latin text Euge serve bone, in modico fidelis, intra in gaudium Domini tui. Fidelis servus et prudens, quem constituit Dominus super familiam suam, intra in gaudium Domini tui. Euge serve…

English translation Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Matt. 25   Original text and translations may be found at Euge serve bone.