Rorate coeli (Advent prose) (Gregorian chant)

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• (Posted 2014-11-20)  CPDL #33429: 

Editor: Andrew Forbes (submitted 2014-11-20).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: neumes and verses, in English.

• CPDL #30613: 

Editor: Daniel Eby (submitted 2013-11-24).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 28 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: square notes on 4-line staff

• CPDL #22879:  Sibelius 6 Sibelius 5 Sibelius 3

Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2010-12-16).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 26 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: SATB harmonization of refrain only

• CPDL #10256:    Encore

Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2005-11-29).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 27 kB   Copyright: Religious

Edition notes: no verses supplied

General Information

Title: Rorate coeli
Composer: Anonymous (Gregorian chant)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unison

Genre: Sacred, Chant, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published:

Description: Refrain to the so called Advent Prose, not to be confused with the Introit for the 4th Sunday of Advent.

External websites: square notation from Liber usualis including verses

Original text and translations

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Latin text Rorate, coeli, desuper, et nubes pluant iustum; aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem.

English translation Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. 1. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity forever: Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation: Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praisèd thee. 2. We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing, and we all do fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away; thou hast hid thy face from us: and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 3. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know me and believe me: I even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Saviour: and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 4. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, my salvation shall not tarry: I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions: Fear not, for I will save thee: