Membra Jesu. Works, 10
Sacred Works for Five Voices and Instruments, Part 1: Membra Jesu Nostri
by Dietrich Buxtehude
Choir - Sheet Music

Choir Sacred 5 Voices & Instruments

SKU: PE.BT-BUX10

Sacred Works for Five Voices and Instruments, Part 1: Membra Jesu Nostri. Composed by Dietrich Buxtehude and Edited by Klaus Beckmann. This edition: Critical Edition. Choral Works (Sacred) - Mixed Voices. Broude Trust. Critical edition. 296 pages. Broude Brothers #98-BT-BUX10. Published by Broude Brothers (PE.BT-BUX10).

ISBN 9790300575100. Latin.

Under the title Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima, Dietrich Buxtehude presents as a cycle seven formally independent cantatas. The seven cantatas share a similar, though not identical, structure. At the heart of each cantata is an aria setting three strophes from the medieval oratio beginning "Salve mundi salutare" and known in a seventeenth-century form as "Rhythmica oratio ad unum quodlibet membrorum Christi patientis et a cruce pendentis." The aria is preceded by a concerto setting a Bible verse, and in all but one case is followeed by a repetition of the concerto; in the final cantata, the repetition of the ible verse is replaced with an Amen. Each cantata begins with a brief instrumental sonata.