Kyrie Rex Angelorum, Apt 1 (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2025-05-15)  CPDL #84914:       

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-05-15).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 774 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained. Musica ficta are left to the tastes of the performers.

General Information

Title: Kyrie Rex Angelorum, Apt 1
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Unknown
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATT
Genre: Sacred, Mass

Languages: Greek, Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c. 1400 in the Apt Manuscript, no. 1
Description: Troped with anonymous poetry: Rex angelorum in the upper part, and Clemens Pater in the middle part. The tenor is the Kyrie from Mass IX "cum jubilo".

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Kyrie.

Greek and Latin text

Upper part Kyrie, Rex angelorum, lux et sol insciae, Pater dulcis, Pater pie, cum sis flumen venie. Deus judex veritatis et misercordiae, eleyson. Tu qui de celo misisti, Deus, nobis Filium tuum, quem Virgo concepit nobile praesidium, ut nostra sanati omne optimum remedium, eleyson. Christe eleyson. Christe, Fili Dei Patris, gaudium dulcedinis, Patri consubstantialis, formam sumens hominis, ab intacta Genitrice sine labe criminis, eleyson. Christe eleyson. Paraclite, qui procedit a Patre et Filio, cum quibus glorificaris in superno solio, Une Deus, in personis tribus sine dubio, eleyson. Kyrie eleyson, De supernis accendatur spiritalis gratia Vere Deus que delentur peccatorum vitia Tu, cum sis in Trinitate Unius essentia, eleyson.

Middle part Clemens Pater, conditor siderum, mundi rector, datorque munerum, verax Deus, destructor scelerum, eleyson. Rex pie celi, potens virtutibus, tremor factus cunctis demonibus qui ruerunt ab altis sedibus, eleyson. Christe eleyson. Jesu Christe, nostra redemptio, Fili Dei, vera dilectio, a quo cuncta manet perfectio, eleyson. Christe eleyson. Sacrosancte amborum Spiritus, Qui vocaris semper Paraclitus, planctus omnes languentium genitus, eleyson. Kyrie eleyson, Sacrum Flamen, superna bonitas, ignis, ardens zeli caritas, una manens in tribus Deitas, eleyson.