Veniet tempus (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-07-26)  CPDL #86090:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-07-26).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 182 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Veniet tempus
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Daniel 12:1-3
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 3, no. 33
Description: Suitable for liturgies concerning the dead or end times, e.g. All Souls or Advent.

Original text and translations

Latin text Veniet tempus in quo salvabitur populus omnis qui inventus fuerit scriptus in libro; et multi de his qui dormiunt in terrae pulvere evigilabunt, alii in opprobrium, ut videant semper; qui autem docti fuerint, fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti, et qui ad justitiam erudiunt multos, quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates.

English translation A time will come when all the people will be saved who are found written in the book; and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to disgrace, to be seen forever; but those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who lead many to righteousness, like stars for all eternity.