Utinam dirumperes coelos (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-06-03)  CPDL #85319:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-06-03).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 167 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Utinam dirumperes coelos
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Isaiah 64:1-2
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: AATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 1, no. 13
Description: Motet for Advent. The opening of the second part, "Veni Domine", strongly resembles Handl's 8vv motet of the same text.

Original text and translations

Latin text Utinam dirumperes coelos, et descenderes, a facie tua montes defluerent, ut notum fieret nomen inimicis tuis, a facie tua gentes turbarentur. Veni Domine, et noli tardare, et revoca dispersos in terram suam.

English translation O that you would rend the heavens and come down at your presence the mountains would melt away, that your name might be known to your enemies, and the nations would tremble at your presence. Come, O Lord, and do not delay, and gather the dispersed back into their land.