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Parts: SATB

Language: Latin
Duration: 2:45

Description

Ave Verum Corpus is a Eucharistic hymn from the 13th century. The first section is very slow with chantlike sections, while the second half is a polyphonic call on the text: “O sweet Jesus, O holy Jesus, O Jesus, Son of Mary, Have mercy upon me.”

Sheet Music

SHEET MUSIC

AVC (SATB) Cover

This sheet music is free to use as much as you’d like, but please don't share it outside your group as that may interfere with my ability to charge for it in the future.

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Scrolling Score

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SATB
Text

TEXT

Latin

Ave verum corpus,

Natum de Maria Virgine;

Vere passum immolatum

In crucis pro homine.

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Cuius latus perforatum

Unda fluxit sanguine.

Esto nobis praegustatum

In mortis examine.

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O Jesu dulcis, O Jesu pie,

O Jesu Fili Mariae,

Miserere mei. Amen.

English Translation

Hail, true body,

Born of the Virgin Mary;

Who has truly suffered, sacrificed

On the Cross for humanity.

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From whose pierced side,

Water and blood flowed.

Be for us a foretaste

In our ordeal of death.

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O sweet Jesus, O holy Jesus,

O Jesus Son of Mary,

Have mercy on me. Amen.

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