Domus mea (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-07-26)  CPDL #86091:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-07-26).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 136 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Domus mea
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Matthew 21:13, 7:7-8
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 3, no. 36
Description: Communion for the Dedication of a Church.

Original text and translations

Latin text Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur, dicit Dominus: omnis qui petit in ea accipit, et qui quaerit invenit, et pulsanti aperietur.

English translation My house shall be called a house of prayer, says the Lord: everyone who asks in it receives, and whoever seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it shall be opened.