Personent hodie
Language: Latin
Personent hodie Voces puerulae, Laudantes jucunde Qui nobis est natus, Summo Deo datus, Et de vir, vir, vir, Et de virgineo ventre procreatus. In mundo nascitur, Pannis involvitur, Praesipi ponitur Stabulo brutorum, Rector supernorum. Perdidit, -dit, -dit, Perdidit, -dit, dit, spolia princeps infernorum. Magitres venerunt, Parvulum inquirunt, Bethlehem adeunt, Stellulam sequendo, Ipsum adorando, Aurum thus, thus, thus, Aurum thus, thus, thus, Aurum, thus, et myrrham ei offerendo. Omnes clericuli, Pariter pueri, Canent ut angeli: Advenisti mundo, Laudes tibi fundo. Ideo, -o, -o, Ideo, -o, -o, Ideo gloria in excelsis Deo.
Authorship
- by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Piae Cantiones, first published 1582 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by John (Milford) Rutter, CBE (b. 1945), "Personent hodie" [chorus], from Dancing Day; A cycle of traditional Christmas carols, no. 3, note: arrangement [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Lidy van Noordenburg
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 90