Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin

Song Cycle by Monica Houghton

1. Alma Redemptoris Mater  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Alma Redemptoris Mater,
Quae pervia coeli porta manes
Et stella maris, succurre cadenti
Surgere qui curat populo:

Tu quae genuisti Natura mirante 
tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius,
Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud Ave
Peccatorum miserere.

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Milde Moeder van de Redder"
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Dear mother of our redeemer", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Hail mother of the Redeemer", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Vapahtajan rakastava Äiti", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

2. Ave Regina coelorum  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Ave regina coelorum,
Ave domina angelorum,
  Miserere tui labentis
  Dufay, ne peccatorum
  ruat in ignem fervorum.

Salve radix sancta,
ex qua mundo lux est orta,
  Miserere, miserere genetrix domini
  ut pateat porta coeli debili.

Gaude gloriosa,
super omnes speciosa,
  Miserere, miserere supplicanti
  Dufay sitque in conspectu tuo
  mors eius speciosa.

Vale, valde decora,
et pro nobis semper Christum exora,
  In excelsis ne damnemur
  miserere nobis et iuva,
  ut in mortis hora
  nostra sint corda decora.

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Hail queen of heaven", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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3. Regina coeli laetere  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Regina caeli laetare, alleluia.
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia,
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia:
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia.
Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Koningin van de hemel", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Queen of Heaven, rejoice", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Reine des cieux", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , "Reina del Cielo", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Note: the older spelling "Regina coeli" can still be found in many scores.


Researcher for this page: Ivo Zandhuis

4. 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

View original text (without footnotes)
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"

Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 203