Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Schein)

Schein set Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen in four beats per measure /4/2) and D minor. The beginning has declamation mostly in homophony, while later the music features faster notes and imitation.^[3]: 2 Schein used a madrigal style in the motet, depicting individual words in music.^{[2]: 290–291 [3]} The swallow (Schwalbe) mentioned in the last line is illustrated by a leap down of an octave, and a slow rise afterward, like a swallow's "dive".^{[2]: 290–291}

When Andreas Reize conducted a choral concert of the Gabrielichor in 2017, of music of Bach's predecessors as Thomaskantor, he ranked the motet as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach, the others being "Unser Leben ist ein Schatten" by Johann Bach, and "Tristis est anima mea" by Johann Kuhnau.^[1]: 9 In 2022, when he had become Thomaskantor himself, he programmed the motet for Deutsches Chorfest in Leipzig on 25 June 2022,^[5] and for the first tour program of the Thomanerchor after the COVID-19 pandemic, performed at locations in Thuringia^[6] and at the Lutherkirche, Wiesbaden as part of the R.^[6][7]