Sprevit hic mundi (Thomas Stoltzer)

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CPDL #29621:    

Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2013-07-14).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Original pitch; note values halved. Editorial accidentals added.

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Title: Sprevit hic mundi
Composer: Thomas Stoltzer

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATBB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Sacrorum hymnorum, Book I (Wittenberg, 1542)

Description: This setting of the fourth verse of the hymn "Martyris Christi colimus" (for the feast of St. Lawrence) is #89 in Georg Rhau's Sacrorum hymnorum liber primus.

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Latin text

Sprevit hic mundi peritura dona,
fert opem nudis, alimenta claudis,
dividit nummos miseris catervis
corde flagranti.