Michael, coeli signifer (Jacob Handl)
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- Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2014-12-02). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 111 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Tranposed down a minor third (according to chiavette); note values halved (quartered in proportio tripla). Editorial accidentals and slurs added.
General Information
Title: Michael, coeli signifer
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: Opus musicum tomus quartus (Prague: Georg Nigrinus, 1586)
Description: This motet for Michaelmas is No. 140 in Handl's Opus musicum, Book IV.
Original text and translations
Latin text
Michael, coeli signifer,
Gabriel, mundi lucifer,
Raphael, tres archangeli Christi et omnes angeli,
amantes casta corpora,
nostra per cuncta saecula tuentur ab insidiis hostium et perfidiis.
Hi nos semper custodiant et post mortem suscipiant,
angelorum altissimo laudem canamus Domino.
English text
Michael, standard-bearer of heaven—
Gabriel, the light-bringer of the world—
Raphael—
the three archangels of Christ and all the angels,
the beloved ones:
through all the ages
they protect our bodily purity from the snares and treacheries of our enemies.
May they always guard us, and after death may they receive us.
Let us sing the praise of the angels to the Lord Most High.
(Note that the comma after "corpora" is spurious, as it breaks up the phrase.)