Quod chorus vatum

Author: Rabanus Maurus.

Quod chorus vatum is a hymn for first Vespers at the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, and is attributed to Rabanus Maurus (ca.776-856).

Notes on selected settings

• Anonymous (Trent manuscript) ATT
• Jacob Handl SSST (verse 1 only)
• Jacob Obrecht SSATB (verse 2 only)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — Quem senex iustus Simeon  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Quod chorus vatum  Latin ATT
• Sixt Dietrich — Quod chorus vatum  Latin SATB
• Heinrich Finck — Qvod chorus vatum venerandus olim  Latin SATB
• Jacob Handl — Quod chorus vatum  Latin SSST
• Jacob Obrecht — Haec Deum caeli  Latin SSATB
• Thomas Stoltzer — Haec Deum cœli Dominumque  Latin SATB
• Thomas Tallis — Quod chorus vatum  Latin SATTB

Text and translations

Latin text Quod chorus vatum venerandus olim Spiritu Sancto cecinit repletus, in Dei factum genitrice constat esse Maria. Haec Deum caeli Dominumque terrae virgo concepit peperitque virgo, atque post partum meruit manere inviolata. Quem senex justus Simeon in ulnis in domo sumpsit Domini, gavisus ob quod optatum proprio videret lumine Christum. Tu libens votis, petimus, precantum, regis aeterni genetrix, faveto, clara quae fundis Geniti benigni munera lucis. Christe, qui lumen Patris es superni, qui Patris nobis reseras profunda, nos fac aeterne tibi ferre laudes lucis in aula.

English translation All prophets hail thee, from of old announcing, by the inbreathèd Spirit of the Father, God's Mother, bringing prophecies to fullness Mary the maiden. Thou the true Virgin Mother of the Highest, bearing incarnate God in awed obedience, meekly acceptest for a sinless offspring purification. In the high temple Simeon receives thee, takes to his bent arms with a holy rapture that promised Savior, vision of redemption, Christ long awaited. Now the fair realm of paradise attaining, and to thy Son's throne, Mother of the Eternal, raisèd all glorious, yet in earth's devotion join with us always. Glory and worship to the Lord of all things pay we unresting, who alone adorèd, Father and Son and Spirit, in the highest reigneth eternal. Translation by Thomas Alexander Lacey