O Sacred Head Now Wounded

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Composer
George Friedrich Handel
Difficulty
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Season
Holy Week Palm/Passion Sunday
Voicing(s)
2-part
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

An arrangement of Handel's harmonization of the Passion Chorale (Herzlich tut mich verlangen).
Unison (optional 2-part equal voice) choir and organ.

Audio
Lyrics

O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn,
How does that visage languish which once was bright as morn.