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Gloria laus et honor a 5
Staff Notation • Sacred, Motets, Hymns
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Gloria laus et honor a 5 by Jacob Handl — Lyrics
1. Gloria, laus et honor
tibi sit, Rex Christe Redemptor.
Cui puerile decus
prompsit hosanna pium.
2. Israel es tu Rex,
Davidis inclyta proles:
Nomine in Domini,
Rex benedicte, venis.
3. Coetus in excélsis
te laudat caélitus omnis,
et mortális homo,
et cuncta creáta simul.
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About Gloria laus et honor a 5
The text of this motet paints a vivid scene of Palm Sunday, describing how the crowds greeted Jesus with praise, palms, hymns, and hosannas as he entered Jerusalem. The composer Jacob Handl captures this moment in a five-part setting for SATTB voices. The Latin lyrics draw a parallel between the adoration offered to Christ by the Hebrew people and the devotion of the faithful today. It emphasizes that just as the crowds' praises pleased him then, so too will our own acts of devotion. The music, sung in five parts, would have been used in sacred services, reflecting the motet's deeply devotional and liturgical character, drawing on the tradition of sacred hymns.
