Aufer immensam, SWV 337 (Heinrich Schütz)

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  • (Posted 2018-06-19)  CPDL #50194:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-06-19).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 132 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from the Spitta edition on IMSLP. Clefs modernised and musica ficta absorbed into staves.
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Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2005-01-06).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 181 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Scroll down to Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, SWV 336 (twice).
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Title: Aufer immensam, SWV 336
Composer: Heinrich Schütz

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: continuo, strings

First published: 1639 in Kleine geistliche Konzerte II, Op. 9, no. 32
    2nd published: 1887 in Heinrich Schütz: Sämtliche Werke, Volume 6, no. 56
    3rd published: 1963 in Neue Schütz-Ausgabe, Volume 12, no. 6
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Original text and translations

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Aufer immensam, aufer, Deus, aufer iram,
et cruentatum cohibe flagellum,
nec scelus nostrum properes
ad aequam pendere lancem.

Si luant justam mala
nostra poenam,
quis potest saevas tolerare plagas,
cum nec ultricem spatiosa ferret
machina virgam.

Parce sed nostris miserando culpis,
jus pari clemens pietate miscens,
cui manet semper proprium maligno parcere mundo.

Cur super vermes luteos furores sumis,
o magni fabricator orbis
quid sumus quam fex putris
umbra pulvis glebaque terrae?

Nos parentales maculant reatus
et caro mentem trahit imbecillem,
ergo tam sortem fragilem
benigno respice vultu.

Da crucem, clavos, scuticam, coronam, lanceam,
funes rigidamque mortem,
inter iratam moderare dextram et mala nostra.

Non opus summi pereat magistri,
nec sinas cassam fore passionem,
corde sed manans lavet omne crimen sanguis et unda.

Hoc ratum quod sit, facias, precamur,
omnibus nobis, residens Olympo
qui Deus semper dominaris orbi,
trinus et unus, Amen.