Cantantibus organis

Cantantibus organis is commonly found in two versions. The shorter appears in the Solesmes editions as the first antiphon at Vespers of the Feast of St. Cecilia (November 22). It is set by Liszt but also in very old chant sources as both antiphon and responsory; Cima replaces the last three words with 'alleluia'. The longer version (evidenced in parentheses) is found in many renaissance settings. See also Misa Cantantibus Organis (Angel Viro)

Notes on selected settings

Jacopo Antonio Cardillo SATTB Jean de Castro 1571 (with pendant) SATTB or ATTTB 1588 (with pendant) SSATB or AATTB Jacquet de Mantua (with pendant) SATB Franz Liszt (S. 7) at IMSLP alto solo with chorus and Orchestra or harmonium

Jean Maillard (with pendant) SATB or ATTB Pierre de Manchicourt a 4 (variant, with 2. pars Caecilia virgo gloriosa) Antonio Marissal SSATB (ends with "Sancta Cecilia ora pro nobis") Tiburtio Massaino (with pendant) SSAAATTTB Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (with pendant) SATTB or ATTTB

Costanza Porta (with pendant) SSATTB or AATTBB Philippe Rogier (with pendant) SSSATB Cipriano de Rore (with pendant) SATTB Franz Sales (with pendant) SSATB or AATBB Alexander Utendal SSATTB (with cantus firmus "Sancta Cecilia ora pro nobis)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Francesco Bianciardi — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATB.SATB,SATB.STTB
• Jacopo Antonio Cardillo — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATTB
• Jean de Castro — Cantantibus organis (1571)  Latin 
• Jean de Castro — Cantantibus organis (1588)  Latin SSATB, AATTB
• Jean de Chaynée — Cæcilia in corde suo  Latin SATB,ATTB
• Giovanni Paolo Cima — Cantantibus organis  Latin Solo Alto
• Severin Cornet — Cantantibus organis  Latin ATTTB
• Thomas Crecquillon — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATB,ATTB
• Mariano Garau — Cantantibus organis  Latin SABB
• Mariano Garau — Cantantibus organis II  Latin SABB
• Phillipus Gheens — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSATB,AATTB
• Giraud — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSA
• Alessandro Kirschner — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATB
• Ferdinand di Lasso — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSATB, SATTB, AATTB
• Jan Le Febure — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSAATTTB
• Jean Maillard — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATB,ATTB
• Pierre de Manchicourt — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATB, ATTB
• Jacquet de Mantua — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATB
• Luca Marenzio — Cantantibus organis  Latin SAAT,ATTB
• Antonio Marissal — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSATB
• Tiburtio Massaino — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSAAATTTB
• Bernardino Morelli — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSAAT, SATTB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Cantantibus organis  Latin 
• Peter Philips — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSATB
• Costanzo Porta — Cantantibus organis  Latin 
• Oreste Ravanello — Cantantibus organis, op. 66/24  Latin SSA
• Oreste Ravanello — Cantantibus organis, op. 66/34  Latin TTBBB
• Philippe Rogier — Cantantibus organis  Latin 
• Cipriano de Rore — Cantantibus organis Cecilia virgo  Latin SATTB
• Franz Sales — Cantantibus organis  Latin 
• Julije Skjavetić — Cantantibus organis  Latin SAATB
• Daniel Torquet — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSAATTBB
• Peter Tranchell — Cantantibus organis  Latin SATTB English SATTB
• Alexander Utendal — Cantantibus organis  Latin SSATTB
• Franciszek Walczyński — Motettum in honorem S. Caeciliae  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Cantantibus organis Cecilia virgo [gloriosa] [in corde suo soli Domino] decantabat dicens: Fiat Domine cor meum [et corpus meum] immaculatum ut non confundar. [Frequent pendant:] Biduanis ac triduanis jejuniis orans, commendabat Domino quod timebat: Fiat Domine cor meum et corpus meum immaculatum ut non confundar.

English translation While the musicians played, Cecilia the [glorious] virgin sang [in her heart only to the Lord], saying: 'Lord, let my heart [and body] remain without stain, that I be not put to shame.' Translation by Mick Swithinbank Supplicating by two or three days of fasting, she gave herself unto the Lord whom she feared: Let my Lord make my heart and my body unspotted, that I may not be confounded.