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.