Salva nos (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-06-12)  CPDL #85410:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-06-12).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 164 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Salva nos
Composer: Jacob Handl
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. 71
Description: Antiphon to the Nunc dimittis at Compline.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Salva nos.

Latin text Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes, custodi nos dormientes: ut vigilemus cum Christo et requiescamus in pace. Amen.

English translation Save us, O Lord, waking, guard us sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace. Amen.