Personent hodie (Gustav Holst)
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- Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2008-12-13). Score information: A4, 1 page, 25 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Pablo Corbí Serna (submitted 2002-12-03). Score information: A4, 1 page, 96 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: The score states that this edition should only be distributed in the USA. However, Holst's works are now out of copyright in the UK and possibly other European countries as well. Please refer to this page for more information.
General Information
Title: Personent hodie
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional) German, 1360
- Arranger: Gustav Holst
Source of text: Piae Cantiones (1582)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: Latin
Instruments: Organ
First published: 1917
Description: Some may know this as the carol "Long ago prophets knew Christ would come, born a Jew"
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Original text and translations
Latin text
1.
Personent hodie voces puerulae, laudantes jucunde
Qui nobis est natus, summo Deo datus,
Et de virgineo ventre procreatus.
2.
In mundo nascitur, pannis involvitur praesepi ponitur
Stabulo brutorum, rector supernorum.
Perdidit spolia princeps infernorum.
3.
Magi tres venerunt, parvulum inquirunt, parvulum inquirunt,
Stellulam sequendo, ipsum adorando,
Aurum, thus, et myrrham ei offerendo.
4.
Omnes clericuli, pariter pueri, cantent ut angeli:
Advenisti mundo, laudes tibi fundo.
Ideo gloria in excelsis Deo.