Rorate coeli (Advent prose) (Gregorian chant)

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  • (Posted 2024-12-04)  CPDL #82996: 
  • In F dur:       (Sibelius 3) (Sibelius 5) (Sibelius 6)
  • In Es dur:     (Sibelius 3) (Sibelius 5) (Sibelius 6)
Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2024-12-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 99 kB   Copyright: Religious
Edition notes: There are two editions of Refrain SATB and Verses in Unisono: original in F dur and transposed in Es dur.
  • (Posted 2024-12-04)  CPDL #82995: 
  • In F dur:       (Sibelius 3) (Sibelius 5) (Sibelius 6)
  • In Es dur:     (Sibelius 3) (Sibelius 5) (Sibelius 6)
Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2024-12-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 91 kB   Copyright: Religious
Edition notes: There are two editions of Refrain and Verses in Unisono: original in F dur and transposed in Es dur.
  • (Posted 2024-12-05)  CPDL #22879:        (Sibelius 3)(Sibelius 5) (Sibelius 6)
Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2024-12-05).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 26 kB   Copyright: Religious
Edition notes: SATB harmonization of Refrain only.
  • (Posted 2024-12-04)  CPDL #82993:        (Sibelius 3) (Sibelius 5) (Sibelius 6) (Encore 4)
Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2024-12-04).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 70 kB   Copyright: Religious
Edition notes: This is updated version of Refrain only without Verses. It contains two scores: original in F dur and transposed in Es dur.
  • (Posted 2021-12-02)  CPDL #66981:           
Editor: Catuí Côrte-Real Suarez (submitted 2021-12-02).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 969 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: TTB harmonization of refrain plus drone/pedal indication for the verses.
  • (Posted 2014-11-20)  CPDL #33429:   
Editor: Andrew Forbes (submitted 2014-11-20).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: neumes and verses, in English.
  • (Posted 2013-11-24)  CPDL #30613:   
Editor: Daniel Eby (submitted 2013-11-24).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 28 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: square notes on 4-line staff.

General Information

Title: Rorate coeli
Composer: Anonymous (Gregorian chant)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Chant, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Refrain to the so called Advent Prose, not to be confused with the Introit for the 4th Sunday of Advent.

External websites:

Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Rorate, coeli, desuper, et nubes pluant iustum;
aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem.

1  Ne irascáris Dómine, ne ultra memíneris iniquitátis:
ecce cívitas Sancti facta est desérta:
Sion desérta facta est: Jerúsalem desoláta est:
domus sanctificatiónis tuæ et glóriæ tuæ,
ubi laudavérunt te patres nostri. A. Roráte.

2  Peccávimus et facti sumus tamquam immúndus nos,
et cecídimus quasi fólium univérsi:
et iniquitátes nostræ quasi ventus abstulérunt nos:
abscondísti fáciem tuam a nobis,
et allisisti nos in manu iniquitátis nostræ. A. Roráte.

3  Vide Domine afflictiónem pópuli tui,
et mitte quem missúrus es:
emítte Agnum dominatórem terræ,
de Petra desérti ad montem fíliæ Sion:
ut áuferat ipse jugum captivitátis nostræ. A. Roráte.

4  Consolámini, consolámini, pópule meus: cito véniet salus tua:
quare mæróre consúmeris, quia innovávit te dolor?
Salvábo te, noli timére, ego enim sum Dóminus Deus tuus,
Sanctus Israel, Redémptor tuus. A. Roráte.

English.png English translation

Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
 and let the skies pour down righteousness.

1  Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,
neither remember iniquity forever:
Thy holy cities are a wilderness,
Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation:
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praisèd thee.

2  We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,
and we all do fade as a leaf:
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away;
thou hast hid thy face from us:
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

3  Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,
and my servant whom I have chosen;
that ye may know me and believe me: I even I, am the Lord,
and beside me there is no Saviour:
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
[This 3rd verse, traditional in English, does not correspond to the Latin.]

4  Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
my salvation shall not tarry:
I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions:
Fear not, for I will save thee: for I am the Lord thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer.

                   

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