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Vier Motetten für die Weihnachtszeit
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
View original-language texts alone: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum ut animalia viderent Dominum natum jacentem in praesepio. Beata Virgo cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum.
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- by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "O magnum mysterium", from the Latin Liturgy
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O großes Mysterium und staunenswertes Geheimnis, dass Tiere den neugeborenen Herrn in der Krippe liegend sahen. Gesegnete Jungfrau, deren Leib es verdient hat, Christus, den Herrn, zu tragen.
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Quem vidistis pastores dicite: annuntiate pro nobis in terris quis apparuit. Natum vidimus, et choros Angelorum collaudantes Dominum. Dicite quidnam vidistis, et annuntiate Christi nativitatem.
Was habt ihr gesehen, Hirten? Sprecht und verkündigt uns, wer auf Erden erschienen ist. Wir haben einen Neugeborenen gesehen und einen Engelchor, der den Herren lobte. Sagt, was ihr gesehen habt und verkündigt Christi Geburt.
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Videntes stellam Magi gavisi sunt gaudio magno: et intrantes domum obtulerunt Domino aurum, thus et myrrham.
Als sie den Stern erblickten, waren die Weisen hoch erfreut. Sie traten ein und brachten dem Herrn Gold, Weihrauch und Myrrhe dar.
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- Translation from Latin to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Hodie Christus natus est Hodie Salvator apparuit, Hodie in terra canunt angeli, Laetantur archangeli, Hodie exultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo, Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
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- by Bible or other Sacred Texts , a medieval paraphrase of Luke 2:11, 13-14 and Psalm 33:1
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Note: in the Gabrieli version, "alleluia" is added at the end of lines 1,2,4, and 7; in the Sweelinck version, "alleluia" is added at the end of line 2, and "Noe!" is added at the end of lines 1 and 4.Heute ist Christus geboren, heute ist der Heiland erschienen, heute singen die Engel auf Erden, Erzengel frohlocken, heute jubeln die Gerechten: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, Halleluja.
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- Translation from Latin to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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Based on:
- a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , a medieval paraphrase of Luke 2:11, 13-14 and Psalm 33:1
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-17
Line count: 6
Word count: 28