Orietur stella (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2020-05-26)  CPDL #58824:       

Editor: James Wetzel (submitted 2020-05-26).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 49 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2009-05-03)  CPDL #19379:     

Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2009-05-03).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 142 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Orietur Stella
Composer: Jacob Handl
Source of text: Numbers 24:17; Psalm 71 (72):11

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum, Volume 1, no. 14
    2nd published: 1980 in The Chester Book of Motets, Book 12, no. 1
Description: Motet for Advent.

Text and translations

Latin text Orietur stella ex Jacob, et exsurget homo de Israel, et confringet omnes duces alienigenarum, et erit omnis terra possessio ejus, et adorabunt eum omnes reges terrae, omnes gentes servient ei.

English translation A star shall come out of Jacob and a man shall arise out of Israel; and he shall destroy all the leaders of the enemies, and the whole earth shall be his possession; and all the kings of the earth shall adore him; all nations shall serve him.