Ecce virgo concipiet

General information

Communion antiphon for Advent IV and Annunciation. From Isaiah 7:14.

Settings by composers

• Anonymous
  • Gregorian chant
  • Trent 91, c.1450 SAT (in 2nd person: …concipies et paries… "you, a virgin, shall")
  • Jena choirbooks, c.1500 SATB
• Ludovico Balbi SATB
• William Byrd SATTB
• Johann Joseph Fux SATB
• Johann Michael Haydn (MH 408) SATB 2 horns, 2 vlns, bc
• Heinrich Isaac SATB
• Nobuaki Izawa SATB
• Cristóbal de Morales SATB (see workpage; "vocabitur nomen ejus: Admirabilis, Deus Fortis…)
• Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Roger Petrich) SATB
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck SSATB

Text and translations

Latin text 7:14  Ecce virgo concipiet et pariet filium et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel. Alleluia.

Dutch translation 7:14  Zie, de maagd zal ontvangen en een zoon baren en hij zal genoemd worden: [God-met-ons.] Alleluia.

English translation 7:14  Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel, [God with us.] Alleluia.

Variant 1 The Trent 88 version begins in second person: Ecce virgo concipies et paries… "Behold, you shall conceive as a virgin and bear…"

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