Si bona suscepimus (Orlando di Lasso)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2014-06-30).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 138 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

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Title: Si bona suscepimus
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Job, ch.1, v.21; ch.2, v.10^{create page}

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Lassus's setting of a text from the Office of the Dead. Magnum opus musicum, no.271.

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Original text and translations

Latin text Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini, mala autem quare non sustineamus? Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit: sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est. Sit nomen Domini benedictum. Nudus egressus sum de utero matris mei, et nudus revertar illuc. Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit: sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est. Sit nomen Domini benedictum.

English translation Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: even as it hath pleased the Lord, so cometh things to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: even as it hath pleased the Lord, so cometh things to pass. Blessed be the name of the Lord.