Luceat lux vestra (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-10-01)  CPDL #86945:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-10-01).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Luceat lux vestra
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Matthew 5:16
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 93
Description: Motet for the Common of a Confessor Pontiff.

Original text and translations

Latin text Luceat lux vestra coram hominibus, ut videant opera vestra bona, et glorificent Patrem vestrum qui in coelis est.

English translation Let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.