Wann unsre Augen schlafen ein, SWV 316 (Heinrich Schütz)

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• (Posted 2018-06-08)  CPDL #50069:        

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-06-08).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the Spitta edition on IMSLP. Clefs modernised. Latin underlay omitted.

• (Posted 2002-05-27)  CPDL #03639: 

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2002-05-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 280 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Scroll down to Wenn unsre Augen schlafen ein, SWV 316 (three times).

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Title: Wann unsre Augen schlafen ein, SWV 316
Composer: Heinrich Schütz
Lyricist: Erasmus Alberus

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: German
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1639 in Kleine geistliche Konzerte II, Op. 9, no. 11
    2nd published: 1887 in Heinrich Schütz: Sämtliche Werke, Volume 6, no. 35
    3rd published: 1963 in Neue Schütz-Ausgabe, Volume 11, no. 4
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Original text and translations

German text Wann unsre Augen schlafen ein, so laß das Herz doch wacker sein, halt über uns dein rechte Hand, daß wir nicht falln in Sünd und Schand. (Verse 3 of Christe, der du bist der helle Tag, Alber's 1536 paraphrase of Christe qui lux es et dies)

English translation When our eyes close in sleep let our hearts yet be stout, and stretch out thy right hand over us lest we fall into sin and scandal. Translation by Richard Mix