Haec est vera fraternitas (Jacob Handl)

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(Posted 2025-08-13) CPDL #86337:

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-08-13). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 159 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Haec est vera fraternitas
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: ATTB.ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 18
Description: Motet "ad voces aequales" (for lower voices) for the Common of Several Martyrs or Feasts of Apostles who are celebrated together (e.g. Simon and Jude).

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Haec est vera fraternitas,
quae nunquam potuit violari certamine;
qui, effuso sanguine, secuti sunt Dominum,
contemnentes aulam regiam,
pervenerunt ad regna coelestia.

English translation

This is the true brotherhood
that could never be broken in conflict;
they, having shed their blood, followed the Lord,
despising the royal court,
and came to the heavenly kingdom.