Text:O sacred head, sore wounded
Author (attributed to):Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
Translator, stanza 4:James W. Alexander
Translator, stanzas 1-3:Robert Bridges
Tune:PASSION CHORALE
Composer:Hans Leo Hassler

259. O sacred head, sore wounded

Text Information
First Line: O sacred head, sore wounded
Title: O sacred head, sore wounded
Author (attributed to): Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
Translator, stanzas 1-3: Robert Bridges (1899)
Translator, stanza 4: James W. Alexander (1830)
Meter: 7676D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1992
Topic: Passion and Death
Source: Medieval Latin
Notes: German paraphrase by Paul Gerhardt, 1656 (O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden)
Tune Information
Name: PASSION CHORALE
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler (1601)
Meter: 7676D
Key: a minor or modal
Source: based on the love song "Mein G’müt its mir verwirret"



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