Rorate caeli (Traditional)
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
Web Page | |
File details | |
Help |
- Editor: Abel Di Marco (submitted 2001-05-09). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 3.61 MB Copyright: Religious
- Edition notes: Finale files may be viewed and printed with Finale Reader.
General Information
Title: Rorate caeli
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
{{Published}} is obsolete (code commented out), replaced with {{Pub}} for works and {{PubDatePlace}} for publications.
Description: A harmonization of the hymn tune "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" with a metrical Latin version of the German hymn, itself a paraphase of the Gregorian introit for the fourth Sunday of Advent.
External websites:
Original text and translations
Latin text
1. Roráte caéli désuper,
plúantque núbes Príncipem:
aperiátur iám térra
Salvatorémque gérminet.
2. Qui cúncta cúmples Númine,
nóstros te in ártus cólligis:
ut nos redúcas ad Déum,
descéndis in térram, Déus.
3. Vérbum quod ánte saécula
sinu paterno násceris,
récens hómo sub témpore
et Vírgine pródis sínu.