Rorate coeli (Advent prose) (Gregorian chant)
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- 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 Justum
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.
(first of 4 vv)