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'''''Ut queant laxis''''' is the {{CiteCat|Office hymns|Office hymn}} for second [[Vespers]] of the Nativity of Saint {{CiteCat|John the Baptist}} (June 24). The more famous of the two Gregorian melodies is attributed to [[Guido d'Arezzo]] and begins each phrase on a higher scale degree: hence the naming of the solfeggio notes after the first syllable of each line of the first verse.

==External links==
*[http://www.ceciliaschola.org/pdf/utqueant.pdf guidonian tune] (from [[Liber Usualis]], p. 1342) and translation
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15244a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut_queant_laxis Wikipedia article]

==Settings by composers (hand annotated)==
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*[[Anonymous]]
**[[Ut queant laxis (Gregorian chant)|Gregorian chant mode ii]] (also attrib. [[Ut queant laxis (Guido d'Arezzo)|Guido d'Arezzo)]]
**[[Ut queant laxis (Anonymous)|Trent 91]] SAATB
**[[Ut queant laxis (tr92) I (Anonymous)|Trent 92 I]] SAT
**[[Ut queant laxis (tr92) II (Anonymous)|Trent 92 II]] SAT
**[[Ut queant laxis (Responsoria hebdomadae sanctae) (Anonymous)|''Responsoria hebdomadae sanctae'', 1612]] SATB.SATB & bc

*[[Nuntius celso (Sixt Dietrich)|Sixt Dietrich]] ATTB (v.2, but incorporates solfege from v.1)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Hernando Franco)|Hernando Franco]] (1, SATB; 4, "Ventris…" SATTB)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Elzear Genet)|Elzear Genet (Carpentras)]] SATB (odd, "Gloria Patri genitoque…")
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*[[Ut queant laxis (Jan Le Febure)|Jan Le Febure]] SATB (2. "Nuncius celso" & 5. "Ventris")
*[[Ut queant laxis (Orlando di Lasso)|Orlando di Lasso]] SATTB (v. 1 with scale in Tenor 1)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Nicolas Merques)|Nicolas Merques]] AAT (one stroph)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Claudio Monteverdi)|Claudio Monteverdi]] SS, 2 violins, basso continuo (reworking of ''Iste confessor'')
*[[Ut queant laxis (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)|José Maurício Nunes Garcia]] even verses for SATB, figured organ bass for odd.
*[[Hymni vespertini (Josef Ohnewald)|Josef Ohnewald]] SATB & orchestra (2000-2200-tympani-str) (XIII - vv. 1-2, 6-7)
*[[Nuntius celso (Diego Ortiz)|Diego Ortiz]] SAATB (v. 2)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)|Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina]] SATB (vv. 1,3), SAATB (Doxology)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Jacobus Vaet)|Jacobus Vaet]] SATTB (even)
*[[Ut queant laxis (Tomás Luis de Victoria)|Tomás Luis de Victoria]] SATB (vv. 2,4)
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==Text and translations==
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{{Text|Latin|
'''Ut''' queant laxis '''re'''sonare fibris
'''mi'''ra gestorum '''fa'''muli tuorum,
'''sol'''ve polluti '''la'''biis reatum,
sancte Joannes.

Nuntius celso veniens Olympo,
te patri magnum fore nasciturum,
nomen, et vitae seriem gerendae,
ordine promit.

Ille promissi dubius superni
perdidit promptae modulos loquelae;
sed reformasti genitus peremptae
organa vocis.

Laudibus cives celebrant superni
te, Deus simplex pariterque trine;
supplices ac nos veniam precamur:
parce redemptis.

Ventris obstruso recubans cubili,
senseras Regem thalamo manentem:
hinc parens, nati, meritis, uterque,
abdita pandit.

Sit decus Patri, genitaeque proli
et tibi, compare utriusque virtus,
Spiritus semper, Deus unus, omni
Temporis aevo. Amen.

''Carpentras, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Victoria''
Gloria Patri genitaeque Proli
et tibi compar utriusque semper
Spiritus alme Deus unus omni
tempore saecli. Amen.}}
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{{Translation|English|
For thy spirit, holy John, to chasten
Lips sin-polluted, fettered tongues to loosen;
So by thy children might thy deeds of wonder
Meetly be chanted.

Lo! a swift herald, from the skies descending,
Bears to thy father promise of thy greatness;
How he shall name thee, what thy future story,
Duly revealing.

Scarcely believing message so transcendent,
Him for a season power of speech forsaketh,
Till, at thy wondrous birth, again returneth
Voice to the voiceless.

''The heavenly citizens celebrate you
''with lauds, one God and at once triune;
''we also come imploring forgiveness;
''spare us among the redeemed.

Thou, in thy mother's womb all darkly cradled,
Knewest thy Monarch, biding in His chamber,
Whence the two parents, through their children's merits,
Mysteries uttered.

Praise to the Father, to the Son begotten,
And to the Spirit, equal power. possessing,
One God whose glory, through the lapse of ages,
Ever resoundeth.
Amen.}}{{Translator|Campelli}}
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