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
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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.