Propter Sion non tacebo (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-06-02)  CPDL #85305:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-06-02).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 160 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Propter Sion non tacebo
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Isaiah 62:1-2
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 1, no. 6
Description: Motet for Advent.

Original text and translations

Latin text Propter Sion non tacebo, et propter Jerusalem non quiescam, donec egrediatur ut splendor justus ejus, et salvator ejus ut lampas accendatur. Et videbunt gentes justum tuum, et cuncti reges inclitum tuum, et vocabitur tibi nomen novum, quod os Domini nominavit.

English translation For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp. And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy glorious one, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.