Si bona suscepimus

General information

Responsory from the Office of the Dead. Source of text is Job 2:10 and Job 1:21

Notes on selected settings

Anonymous Capp. Sist. 42 SATB (see workpage for extended text) Jacobus Clemens non Papa STTTB (second part only)

Johann Knöfel SATTB (first part only) Pierre de Manchicourt SAATB (some variation in text — see work page), with 2.p. Tribularer si nescirem

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Giovanni Matteo Asola — Si bona suscepimus  Latin AATTTTBB
• Ippolito Baccusi — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SSSATB,AAATTB
• Giovanni Croce — Si bona suscepimus  Latin AAATTTBB,SATB.SATB
• Hans Leo Hassler — Si bona suscepimus a 6  Latin SSATTB
• Hans Leo Hassler — Si bona suscepimus a 8  Latin SSAATTTB
• Nobuaki Izawa — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SATB
• Johann Knöfel — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SSATB
• Jehan L'Heritier — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SATB, ATTB
• Ferdinand di Lasso — Si bona suscepimus  Latin ATTBB
• Orlando di Lasso — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SAATB
• Leonhard Lechner — Si bona suscepimus a 6  Latin SAATTB,SSATTB
• Pierre de Manchicourt — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SAATB
• Thomas Mancinus — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SATTB
• Jacquet de Mantua — Si bona suscepimus  Latin ATTTB
• Johannes Nucius — Si bona suscepimus I  Latin SATTB
• Johannes Nucius — Si bona suscepimus II  Latin SATTB, ATBBB
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Job tonso capite  Latin STTTB
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Si bona suscepimus  Latin STTB
• Dominique Phinot — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SATTB
• Costanzo Porta — Si bona suscepimus  Latin AATB
• Georg Prenner — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SAATTB,ATTBBB
• Claudin de Sermisy — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SATB
• Andreas de Silva — Si bona suscepimus  Latin ATB
• Francesco Usper — Nudus egressus sum a 6  Latin SSATTB
• Ivo de Vento — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SAATB,ATTBB
• Philippe Verdelot — Si bona suscepimus  Latin STTTB,ATTTB
• Johannes Wanning — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SAATTB
• Matthias Herman Werrecoren — Si bona suscepimus  Latin SAATT, ATTBB
• Gioseffo Zarlino — Si bona suscepimus  Latin ATTTB

Text and translations

Latin text 2:10  Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini, mala autem quare non sustineamus? 1:21  Nudus egressus sum de utero matris meae, et nudus revertar illuc. Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit; sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est: sit nomen Domini benedictum.

English translation 2:10  If we have received good things from the hand of the Lord, why should we not endure bad things? 1:21  Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord has given, the Lord has taken away: as it has pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. Translation by Edward Tambling