Vulnerasti cor meum

General information

Source of text is Song of Solomon 4:9-10a, 8a

Settings by composers

Anonymous ATTB Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni S or T (vv. 9,8a) Arcangelo Borsaro SSAATTBB (vv. 9,10a) Giovanni Paolo Cima STB (vv. 9-10) Richard Dering TTB (vv. ) Giovanni Ferrari TTB (vv. 9,10 ) Giulio Cesare Gabussi SATTB (vv. ) Andreas Hakenberger SSSAAATTTBBB (vv. 9-10 ) Orlando di Lasso SSATTB (vv. 9-10) Giovanni Battista Mechi SATTB (vv. 9-10)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB (vv. 9-10) Giovanni Felice Sances ST (vv. 9,10a,8a) Melchior Schramm SATTB (vv. 9-10) Heinrich Schütz Vulnerasti cor meum SWV 64 SATB (v. 9) (substitutes filia carissima for the Vulgate's soror mea sponsa) Ego dormio SWV 63 (2nd part) SATB or STTB (v. 9) (substitutes filia carissima for the Vulgate's soror mea sponsa) Giovanni Valentini TTB (vv. 9-10) Orazio Vecchi SSATTB or AATBarBarB (vv. 9-10 ) Ottavio Vernizzi SATTB (vv. 9-10) Johannes Wanning SATTB (vv. 9-10)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Giacomo Benincasa — Vulnerasti cor meum
• Orlando di Lasso — Vulnerasti cor meum a 6

Text and translations

Latin text 4:9  Vulnerasti cor meum, soror mea, sponsa: vulnerasti cor meum in uno oculorum tuorum et in uno crine colli tui. 4:10  Quam pulchrae sunt mammae tuae soror mea sponsa, pulchriora sunt ubera tua vino et odor unguentorum tuorum super omnia aromata. 4:8a  Veni de Libano sponsa, veni de Libano: veni coronaberis.

Dutch translation 4:9  Je hebt mijn hart getroffen, mijn zusje, mijn bruid; je hebt mijn hart getroffen met één blik van je ogen en met één haarlok om je hals. 4:10 Wat mooi zijn je borsten, mijn zusje, mijn bruid. Je borsten zijn heerlijker dan wijn en de geur van je parfums is lekkerder dan alle geurstoffen. 4:8a  Translation by Anton Hendriks, Ben Terstegge & Hanneke Pot

English translation 4:9  My sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded mine heart: thou hast wounded mine heart with one of thine eyes, and with a chain of thy neck. 4:10  My sister, my spouse, how fair is thy love? How much better is thy love than wine? and the savour of thine ointments than all spices? 4:8a  Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, even with me from Lebanon,and thou shalt be crowned. (Geneva Bible)

German translation 4:9  Du hast mein Herz verwundet, teuerstes Mädchen, mit einem Blick deiner Augen und mit einem Haar in deinem Nacken. Translation by Peter Rottländer