Gloria
General Information
Gloria in excelsis is the second item of the Ordinary of the Mass, immediately following the acclamations Kyrie eleison at the beginning of Mass. It is also referred to as the "Angelic Hymn", the Greater (major) Doxology (to distinguish it from the lesser or minor doxology Gloria Patri) or Et in terra pax, the words following the priest's solo intonation ("Gloria…" is repeated by the choir in numerous settings).
Composed on the model of the Psalms, its authorship is unknown, though it obviously takes as a point of departure the salutation of the angels at St Luke 2:14. By the 4th century the Greek original was being used at morning prayer; in the west it is sung at Mass on Sundays (except during Advent and Lent) and on certain feasts.
In Anglican usage, the Gloria appears in the usual place in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, after which it was moved to the end of the Communion Service until the liturgical reforms of the mid-twentieth century. The scores of Masses by English composers often follow this arrangement.
View the Wikipedia article on Gloria.
- See also:
- Gloria … Spiritus et alme, the Marian trope
- Glory be to God on high, Charles Wesley's metrical paraphrase
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, Nikolaus Decius's paraphrase
Notes on selected settings
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Settings by composers (automatically updated)
- Festal Communion Service in B flat, Op. 12 — English SSATB
- Aleyn — Latin ATT
- Ambrosian chant — Latin Unison
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin SATB.SATB
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin T
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Anonymous — Latin ATT
- Alexander Arkhangelsky — English SATB
- Emma Louise Ashford — English SATB
- Alvise Balbi — Latin SS
- Oliver Barton — English SATB
- Philip Le Bas — English SATB
- H. Battre — Latin SAT
- Dmitri Bortniansky — German SATB
- Johannes Brassart — Latin SAT
- Dudley Buck — English SATB
- John Burell — Latin ATT
- Thomas Bytteryng — Latin ATT
- Thomas Bytteryng — Latin AATT
- Thomas Causton — English SATB
- Tomaso Cecchino — Latin SATTB
- Mark Chapman — Latin Unison
- Chassa — Latin TT
- Johannes Ciconia — Latin SATT
- John Cooke — Latin ATT
- John Cooke — Latin ATT
- Thomas Damett — Latin ATT
- Thomas Damett — Latin TBB
- Donna DiBella — English unison
- Hugo Distler — German SSA
- Guillaume Dufay — Latin TTB
- John Dunstable — Latin ATB
- Juan Esquivel — Latin SATB
- J. Excetre — Latin ATT
- Andrea Gabrieli — Latin SSAB.SATB.ATBB.TBBB
- Giovanni Gabrieli — Latin SATB.SATB.SATB
- Marcel le Gan — Latin ATT
- Mariano Garau — Latin SATB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SABB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SATB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SAA
- Mariano Garau — Latin SATB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SATB
- Alessandro Grandi — Latin SSAT.SATB
- Óscar Manuel Paredes Grau — Latin SA
- Óscar Manuel Paredes Grau — Latin SAB
- Adam Gumpelzhaimer — Latin 2 equal voices
- Adam Gumpelzhaimer — Latin SATB.SATB
- George Frideric Handel — Latin Solo Soprano
- Roy Henry — Latin TBB
- David Leroy McIntyre III — Latin SS
- John Ireland — English SATB
- John Kilpatrick — Latin SSAATTBB
- Joseph Knapicius — Latin SSATB
- George Loosemore — English SATB
- George Alexander Macfarren — English SATB
- Felix Mendelssohn — German SATB.SATB
- Marco Molinari — Italian SATB
- Claudio Monteverdi — Latin SATB.SATB
- Otto Nicolai — German SATB.SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SA
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SS
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin TTB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin TT
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin B
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin B
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- Edewede Oriwoh — Latin SATBB
- Edewede Oriwoh — Latin SSATTBB
- Paolo Pandolfo — Italian Unison
- Paolo Pandolfo — Latin SATB
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi — Latin SA
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi — Latin SATB
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi — Latin SATB
- Leonel Power — Latin TTTBB,ATTBB
- Luca Purchiaroni — Latin SATB
- Pycard — Latin AATT
- Pycard — Latin SSATT
- Pedro Quental — Portuguese SATB
- Burkhart M. Schürmann — Latin SSATB
- Martin Shaw — English SATB
- John Stainer — English SATB
- Remi Studer — Latin SATB
- Remi Studer — Latin SATB
- Nicholas Sturgeon — Latin ATT
- Nicholas Sturgeon — Latin ATT
- Johannes Susay — Latin ATB,TTB,TBB
- Thomas Tallis — English SATB
- John Tyes — Latin AAT
- Francisco Valls — Latin SATB.SSAATT
- Francisco Valls — Latin Solo Soprano
- Francisco Valls — Latin SATB.SSATB
- Antonio Vivaldi — Latin SATB
- Antonio Vivaldi — Latin SATB
Text and translations
 Latin textGloria in excelsis Deo.  Dutch translationEer aan God in den hoge.  French translationGloire à Dieu au plus haut des cieux  Tagalog translationPapuri sa Diyos sa kaitaasan  Thai translation(จากหนังสือพิธีบูชาขอบพระคุณ):  Spanish translationGloria a Dios en el cielo  Vietnamese translationVinh danh Thiên Chúa trên các tầng trời. |
 English translation(traditional language from the "Book of Common Prayer"): English translation(modern language in post-Vatican II vernacular)  Chinese translation天主在天受光榮，主愛的人在世享平安。  Portuguese translationGlória a Deus nas alturas  German translationEhre sei Gott in der Höhe und Friede auf Erden  Hungarian translationDicsőség a magasságban Istennek,  Polish translationChwała na wysokości Bogu. |