Quem vidistis

Quem vidistis, pastores is the third responsory at Matins for Christmas Day.

Settings by composer

Gregorian chant Raffaella Aleotti SSAAT.AATBB Giovanni Matteo Asola TTBB.TTBB Arjan van Baest SSAATB Girolamo Baglioni SATB Giovanni Bassano SATB.SATB, organo seguente Pierre Bonhomme a 6 a 8 Christoph Buel SSATB Pierre Cadéac SATTB Floriano Canale a 6, SSAATT or AATTBB Mark Chapman SATB (one of Three Motets for Advent and Christmas) Richard Dering SSATTB Carl Ludwig Drobisch (Pastorales Graduale und Offertorium) SATTBB.SATB with orchestra Stefano Felis SSATB Robert Führer (4 Festoffertorien) SATB & orchestra Andrea Gabrieli SATT.TTTB Giovanni Gabrieli ATTTTB

François Gallet SATTB Pietro Amico Giacobetti SAAT or ATTB Hans Leo Hassler SSAT or ATTB Pietro Lappi SATTB Orlando di Lasso SSATB Estêvão Lopes Morago SATB (withdrawn) José Maurício Nunes Garcia (Matinas do Natal) SATB & strings Giulio Osculati SSAT.ATTB Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (2nda parte of O magnum mysterium) SSAATB Jean Pennequin SSATTB Cipriano de Rore SAATTBB Johann Hermann Schein SSAT.ATBB Josef Ignaz Schnabel Graduale: Natum vidimus SATB & orchestra Michael Tonsor SATTB Orazio Vecchi SATTB Tomás Luis de Victoria SSATTB August Zangl — Pastorales Graduale und Offertorium SA(T)B & orchestra

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Antonio Cifra — Angelus ad pastores ait (1629)
• Mariano Garau — Quem vidistis pastores
• Giacomo Antonio Perti — Inno e responsi pel santo Natale a 4 voci con violini

Text and translations

Text variants are enclosed between square brackets.

Latin text Quem vidistis, pastores, dicite, annuntiate nobis, in terris quis apparuit? [Christum salvatorem de Virgine] Natum vidimus et choros angelorum collaudantes Dominum, Alleluia. [Mariam et Joseph vidimus, in terra stratos supplices et ratum carum pariter adorantes humiliter, gratia Deo, qui dedit nobis victoriam per Jesum Christum, salvatorem nostrum.] Dicite, quidnam vidistis? et annuntiate Christi nativitatem. Alleluia. [Quia puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis cujus imperium super humerum ejus et vocabitur nomen ejus magni consilii Angelus]

English translation Whom did you see, shepherds, say, tell us: who has appeared on earth? [Christ the savior, from the Virgin] the new-born we saw and choirs of angels praising the Lord, alleluia! [We see Mary and Joseph, prostrate suppliants upon the earth and in humble adoration: thanks be to God, who delivered to us victory through Jesus Christ, our savior.] Say, what did you see? And tell us of Christ's nativity. Alleluia. [For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called angel of wondrous counsel.]

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