Vox clamantis in deserto (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2024-10-10)  CPDL #82327: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-10-10).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 99 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Vox clamantis in deserto
Composer: Jacob Handl
Lyricist: Isaiah 40: 3-5^{create page}
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum, Volume 1, no. 4
Description: A motet for the fourth week in Advent.

Original text and translations

Latin text Vox clamantis in deserto, parate viam Domini: rectas facite in solitudine semitas Dei nostri. Omnis vallis exaltabitur, et omnis mons et collis humiliabitur; et erunt prava in directa, et aspera in vias planas. Et revelabitur gloria Domini, et videbit omnis caro pariter: quod os Domini locutum est.

English translation A voice crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight in the desert a path for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Geneva Bible)