Dum steteritis ante reges (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-08-29)  CPDL #86567:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-08-29).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Dum steteritis ante reges
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 42
Description: Motet for the Common of Apostles.

Original text and translations

Latin text Dum steteritis ante reges et praesides, nolite cogitare quomodo aut quid loquamini, dabitur enim vobis in illa hora quid loquamini. Non enim vos estis qui loquimini, sed spiritus Patris vestri qui loquitur in vobis.

English translation But when you shall stand before kings and governors, take no thought how or what to speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak. For it is not you that speaks, but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.