The cantiones sacrae are a collection of forty courts Motet S for vocal Quatuor and Orgue, written by Heinrich Schütz in 1625.

They were published in Freiberg and were dedicated to catholic prince Johann Ulrich von Eggenberg. They rest on a Latin whole of texts in compiled in 1571 by Andreas Musculus and Matin Moller and would result from meditations augustiniennes. It is noted that it is the first work of the type-setter using this language, the latter usually using the German vernacular. Was this with oecumenical aiming can be?

The reduced manpower necessary allows a certain intimacy of the play or listening which is hardly usual in its century. In the same register, they can be close to the madrigaux contemporary of Johann Hermann Schein.

In an anecdotic way, one notes a reference to the nickname of the musician in the median motet: Sagittae (Sagittarius being a pun on the patronym of the musician, Schütz wanting to say archer).