O magne pater (Hildegard von Bingen)

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• (Posted 2025-03-07)  CPDL #84099:   

Editor: Allison Mondel (submitted 2025-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Riesencodex f.466 recto.

• (Posted 2023-09-17)  CPDL #75461:   

Editor: Jeffrey Quick (submitted 2023-09-17).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 385 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Edition in quasi-Solesmes neumes, for my chant schola. Conflation of the two original sources, based on the edition by Barth et al with reference to the original manuscripts. Not meant to be musicologically legit at all.

General Information

Title: O magne pater
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Lyricist: Hildegard von Bingen
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: unison
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Antiphon for God the Father

Original text and translations

Latin text O magne Pater, in magna necessitate sumus. Nunc igitur obsecramus, obsecramus te per Verbum tuum, per quod nos constituisti plenos quibus indigemus. Nunc placeat tibi, Pater, quia te decet, ut aspicias in nos per adiutorium tuum, ut non deficiamus, et ne nomen tuum in nobis obscuretur, et per ipsum nomen tuum dignare nos adiuvare.

English translation O great Father, we are in terrible need. Therefore now we implore, we beg you, through your Word, by which you have made us full with the things we stand in want of. May it suit you now, Father, because it befits you, to look upon us through your mercy, lest we fall short, and that your name not be lost to us, and by your very name deign to help us. Translation by Hugh McElroy