Corona carminum sacrorum

Song Cycle by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966)

1. Ave Maria  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Ave Maria gratia plena
Dominus tecum. 
[Benedicta]1 tu in mulieribus, 
Et benedictus [fructus ventris]2 [tui]3 Jesus.
Sancta [Maria, Mater Dei]4,
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
[Ave Maria]5.

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • AFR Afrikaans (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Wees gegroet Maria"
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Wees gegroet, Maria"
  • ENG English (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Ave Maria"
  • FRE French (Français) (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Dios te salve Maria"

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See also Geert Cuypers's very informative Ave Maria Songs website.

Note: used as the basis for an acrostic in Marchetto da Padova's Ave Regina Celorum / Mater innocentie

1 Móry: "Oh Maria benedicta"
2 Guarnieri, Nepomuceno, Villa-Lobos: "fructus"
3 Krenn: "tuis"
4 Gounod, Holst, Móry, Rossini: "Maria"
5 Cherubini, Cserny, Guarnieri, Holst, Jackson, Krenn, Kuula, Massenet, Mompou, Móry, Nepomuceno, Pejačević, Rheinberger, Rossini, Simon, Vermeulen, Vermin, Villa-Lobos: "Amen"; Jakobey: "Amen. Ave Maria."

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2. Salve Regina   [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae,
vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve. 

[Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.]1

[Ad]2 te suspiramus gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle. 

[Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.]3 

[Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.]4

[O clemens, o pia]5, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, an antiphon possibly written by a monk of Reichenau, Hermann the Lame (1013-1054), or by Adhemar, bishop of Le Puy (-1098)

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Salve Regina", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Hail O queen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Salut Reine, mère miséricordieuse", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Ton Rooijmans) , "Nous vous saluons, Reine"
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sei gegrüßt, Königin", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Strozzi: "Regina ad te clamamus, ad te suspiramus exules filii Evae."
2 Strozzi: "Regina ad"
3 omitted by Schubert (D. 223); Schubert (D.676): "Eia ergo, advocata nostra, oculos tuos ad nos converte"; Polignac: "Salve Regina,"
4 omitted by Schubert (D.223); Schubert (D. 27): "Ostende nobis post hoc exsilium Jesum benedictum fructum"; Schubert (D. 676): "Et post hoc exilium ostende nobis Jesum, fructum ventris tui."; Schubert (D. 811): "Et ostende nobis post hoc exilium Jesum, filium tuum."
5 Schubert (D. 27 and D. 386): "O pia, o clemens"

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3. Inviolata  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Inviolata, integra, et casta es Maria,
quae es effecta fulgida caeli porta.
O Mater alma Christi carissima,
suscipe pia laudum praeconia.

Nostra ut pura pectora sint et corpora,
quae nunc flagitant devota corda et ora.
Tua per precata dulcisona,
nobis concedas veniam per saecula.

O benigna, o regina, o Maria,
quae sola inviolata permansisti.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Ongeschondene", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Undefiled", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Immaculée", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]
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