O crux ave, spes unica (Giaches de Wert)

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• (Posted 2025-05-19)  CPDL #84971:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2025-05-19).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Source files may be found on my github (linked from my CPDL profile).

• (Posted 2016-04-16)  CPDL #39351:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2016-04-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Modulationum sacrarum quinque et sex vocum libri tres in unum volumen redacti, 1583 (Nuremberg). Original pitch (chiavi naturali) and note-values.

General Information

Title: O crux ave, spes unica
Composer: Giaches de Wert
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1581 in Il secondo libro de motetti a cinque voci, no. 9
    2nd published: 1583 in Modulationum sacrarum quinque et sex vocum libri tres in unum volumen redacti, no. 10
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Original text and translations

Latin text

O crux ave, spes unica
hoc passionis tempore
auge piis justitiam
reisque dona veniam.

(This text is a slightly altered version of v. 9 of Vexilla Regis)

English text

O hail the cross our only hope
in this Passiontide
grant increase of grace to believers
and remove the sins of the guilty.