Si bona suscepimus (Giovanni Croce)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-06-06).   Score information: A4, 27 pages, 207 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is at original pitch, but parts according to the original cleffing (M.M.A.A.T.T.B.B.) have been re-distributed.

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Title: Si bona suscepimus

Composer: Giovanni Croce

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: AAATTTBB

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Responsory from the Office of the Dead

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella

Published: Motetti a otto voce, Venice, 1605

Description: Croce's setting of a text from the Office of the Dead.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Si bona suscepimus.

Latin text

Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini, mala autem quare non sustineamus?
Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit: sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est:
Sit nomen Domini benedictum.
Nudus egressus sum de utero matris mei, et nudus revertar illuc.
Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit: sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est:
sit nomen Domini benedictum.

English translation

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: even as it hath pleased the Lord, so cometh things to pass.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: even as it hath pleased the Lord, so cometh things to pass.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.

(Job, ch.1, v.21; ch.2, v.10)