Rorate coeli (Advent prose) (Gregorian chant)

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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: SacredChantAntiphon

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

Text (or link to a text page) needs to be added.   Question.gif Latin.png Latin text

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

English.png 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)