Siehe an die Werk Gottes (Johann Hermann Schein)

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• CPDL #27130:  Capella

Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2012-09-08).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from original print. Mensural notation, original key and note values, original text spelling, musica ficta clearly marked, clefs modernized, basso continuo part included

• CPDL #17005:  LilyPond

Editor: Peter Kaplan (submitted 2008-05-26).   Score information: Letter, 13 pages, 131 kB    Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In original key. Altus part written in tenor clef.

General Information

Title: Siehe an die Werk Gottes
Translated Title: Consider what God has done
Composer: Johann Hermann Schein
Larger work: Israelsbrünnlein (Fontana d'Israel)

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSTTB or SSATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: German
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: 1623

Description: Number 13 from Johann Schein's masterwork Israelsbrünnlein (or Fontana d'Israel).

Original text and translations

German text(original spelling)

Sihe an die Werck Gottes, den wer kan daß schlecht machen das er krümmet?
Am guten Tag sey guter Dinge, und den bösen Tag nimm auch für gut; den diesen schaffet Gott neben jenem,
daß der Mensch nicht wissen soll, was künfftig ist.

German text(modernized spelling)

Siehe an die Werk Gottes, den wer kann das schlecht machen das er krümmet?
Am guten Tag sei guter Dinge, und den bösen Tag nimm auch für gut; den diesen schaffet Gott neben jenem,
daß der Mensch nicht wissen soll, was künftig ist.

English translation

Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?
When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other.
Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.