Si bona suscepimus a 8 (Hans Leo Hassler)
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- CPDL #25728:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-03-10). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 131 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Edition prepared from Promptuarii Musici, Part 1 (1611), which differs in several minor ways from the piece's original appearance in Sacri Concentus.
General Information
Title: Si bona suscepimus
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler
Source of text: Job 2:10 & 1:21
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Promptuarii Musici, Part 1 (1611), which differs in several minor ways from the piece's original appearance in Sacri Concentus
Description: Hassler's setting of a text from the Office of the Dead.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Si bona suscepimus.
Latin text
2:10 Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini, mala autem quare non sustineamus?
1:21 Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit; sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est: Sit nomen Domini benedictum.
English translation
2:10 Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
1:21 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.