O admirabile commercium (Fabio Costantini)

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Editor: Christoph Lahme (submitted 2010-01-02).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 38,7 kB   Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany

Edition notes: Taken from "Musica Divina" (edited by Carolus Proske, 1854), Liber Motettorum, Tomus II, Sectio I. (see below)

General Information

Title: O admirabile commercium
Composer: Fabio Costantini

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

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External websites:

• Scanned score from "Musica Divina" at IMSLP.org

Original text and translations

Latin text O admirabile commercium!
Creator generis humani,
animatum corpus sumens,
de Virgine nasci dignatus est:
et procedens homo sine semine,
largitus est nobis suam Deitatem.

English text

O admirable exchange: the creator of human-kind,
taking on a living body was worthy to be born of a virgin,
and, coming forth as a human without seed,
has given us his deity in abundance.

Common Poetic Translation:
O wonderful gift: the creator of the human race,
taking our flesh upon him, deigns to be born of a virgin;
and, coming forth without seed of man,
bestows his Divinity upon us.

German translation O wunderbarer Tausch!
Der den Menschen erschuf,
nimmt menschliches Leben an
und wird aus der Jungfrau geboren.
Von keinem Mann gezeugt, kommt er in die Welt
und schenkt uns sein göttliches Leben.