Extollens quaedam (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-09-03)  CPDL #86647:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-09-03).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 143 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Extollens quaedam
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Luke 11:27-28
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 70
Description: Motet for Marian feasts.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Extollens vocem.

Latin text Extollens quaedam mulier vocem de turba dixit illi: “Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera quae suxisti.” At Jesus dixit illi: “Quinimo, beati qui audiunt verbum Dei et custodiunt illud.”

English translation A certain woman, lifting up her voice from the crowd, said to him: “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which you sucked.” But Jesus said to her: “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”