Tantum ergo

General information

Tantum ergo comprises the last two verses of the Eucharistic hymn Pange lingua by Thomas Aquinas (13th cent.). These two verses are often sung separately from the complete hymn, and were set to music by many composers.

Settings by composers (manually updated)

Anonymous Gregorian chant acc. Abel Di Marco Tyler Rusco Arrangement SATB Choral version SATB Unison versions Anonymous (Corsican) TTTB 'Miller' SATB 'Parisian' tune: GRAFTON or ST. THOMAS and often attributed to John Francis Wade (1711-86) SATB a 3 SSA Marcial del Adalid SATB Tantum ergo (Crys Armbrust SSATB (S1 may be sung as a solo) Antonino Barges AATB Antonio Bergamo TTB Mel Bonis SATB Lina Braghetta Unison Heinrich Carl Breidenstein SSA Douglas Brooks-Davies English SAT & organ the same, in Latin SAT or SATB & organ Anton Bruckner Tantum ergo in D Major, WAB 32 SATB a cappella B flat major, WAB 41.1 SATB a cappella E flat major, WAB 41.2 SATB a cappella A flat major, WAB 41.3 SATB a cappella C major, WAB 41.4 SATB a cappella D major, WAB 42 SSATB with organ B flat major (WAB 44) SATB & orchestra Claudio Casciolini SAT Francesco Antonio Calegari SATB Carlo Carturan SSA Giuseppe Corsi da Celano SATB Ian Coleman SA & organ Giovanni Paolo Colonna SATB Johann Melchior Dreyer SATB & orchestra Gabriel Fauré Op. 55 SATBB with S or T solo & organ Op. 65 SSA with SSA soli & organ in G flat Major (no opus number) SATB & organ Heinrich Finck SATB (last verse only) César Franck B & organ, SATB ad lib. Mariano Garau STB Charles H. Giffen SATB Charles Gounod TTBB Giovanni Battista GrazioliSSA Alexandre Guilmant SAB Johann Michael Haydn, MH 404 SATB & organ C. Hegmann (as elevation of Missa Caroli Borromaei) SATB & orchestra Francesco Iannitti SATB Nobuaki Izawa (1) SATB (2) SATB Jens Klimek SATB (1st verse only) SATB & piano Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens TTBB & organ Franz Liszt SSAA & organ Bruce Michez SAB & organ Juan Montes: Genitori TTB

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart KV 142 SATB & orchestra KV 197 SATB & orchestra José Maurício Nunes Garcia with O sacrum convivium SATB & orchestra part of Novena of Our Lady Mother of Mankind SATB & orchestra Tantum ergo of the Novena of the Sacrament SATB & orchestra (1st verse) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATB Lorenzo Perosi SATB Giuseppe Pitoni SATB Marcos Portugal SATB.SATB & orch. Oreste Ravanello op. 66 no.30 SSA op. 66 no.31 SSA Max Reger SATTB 3 settings by Georg Valentin Röder SATB & orchestra Nr. 38 in B by Albert H. RoSewig SATB & piano Gioachino Rossini TTB & piano Camille Saint-Saëns SSAATTBB & organ SSA & organ Oscar Santos SATB Česlovas Sasnauskas Simon Sechter SAB Déodat de Séverac SATB 2 settings by Franz Schöpf SATB & orchestra Franz Schubert Tantum ergo in C, D.460 Soprano, SATB, orchestra Tantum ergo in C, Op. 45, D.739 SATB orchestra Tantum ergo in D, D.750 SATB orch. Tantum ergo in Es, D 962 SATB & soli, orchestra Douglas Walter Scott: Three Aquinas Motets SATB acc. ad lib. Fábio Soldá SATB & strings or keyboard Stanislav Surin unison & organ Giuseppe Tartini I SSA or TTB II SSA Jef Tinel TTB with organ Eduard Adolf Tod TTBB Christopher Upton: Exeter Benediction SATB & organ (English & Latin) Tomás Luis de Victoria (disambiguation) Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini) SSATB Tantum ergo I (SATB), arr. from ""Nobis datus" of Pange lingua gloriosi (Tomás Luis de Victoria) Tantum ergo II (SATB), arr. from "Genitori" of [[Pange lingua gloriosi (Tomás Luis de Victoria)] Tantum ergo, III SATB Tantum ergo IV (SATB), arr. from "Genitori" of [[Pange lingua gloriosi (Tomás Luis de Victoria)] Louis Vierne SATB & organ Scott Villard SATB Samuel Webbe (all with organ) I, SATB II, STB, with S solo III, SATB IV, SSA V, SS soli with SATB chorus Thurlow Weed SATB & organ Charles-Marie Widor (Op. 18, No. 1) SATB & organ Franz Xaver Witt SATB José Zaninetti Unison & keyboard

Settings by composers (automated list)

• Marcial del Adalid — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo  Latin SSA, TTB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo (Parisian)  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo - Corsican chant  Latin TTTB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 11  Latin SAB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 12  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 13  Latin SAB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 14  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 15  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 17  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 18  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 19  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 20  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 22  Latin SAB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 23  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 25  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 26  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 27  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 28  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 29  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 30  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 6  Latin SATB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 8  Latin SAB
• Anonymous — Tantum ergo 9  Latin SAB
• Crys Armbrust — Tantum ergo  Latin SSATB, SATB
• Giuseppe Baini — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Antonino Barges — O sacrum convivium, O inestimabile sacramentum, Tantum ergo sacramentum  Latin AATB
• Antonio Bergamo — Tantum ergo  Latin TTB
• Mel Bonis — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Lina Braghetta — Tantum ergo (Due)  Latin unison
• Heinrich Carl Breidenstein — Tantum ergo  Latin SSA
• Douglas Brooks-Davies — Tantum ergo (Before the Holy Mystery)  English SAT
• Douglas Brooks-Davies — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Anton Bruckner — Tantum ergo (A-flat major)  Latin SATB
• Anton Bruckner — Tantum ergo (B-Flat Major)  Latin SATB
• Anton Bruckner — Tantum ergo (C Major)  Latin SATB
• Anton Bruckner — Tantum ergo (E-flat major)  Latin SATB
• Anton Bruckner — Tantum ergo B-flat major, WAB 44  Latin SATB
• Anton Bruckner — Tantum ergo in D Major, WAB 42  Latin SSATB
• Francesco Antonio Calegari — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Francisco López Capillas — Tantum ergo  Latin SSAATB
• Carlo Carturan — Tantum ergo Sacramentum  Latin SSA
• Claudio Casciolini — Tantum ergo  Latin SAT
• Giuseppe Corsi da Celano — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• François Couperin — Tantum ergo  Latin SSB
• Benjamin Darnault — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Johann Melchior Dreyer — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Jean-Baptiste Faure — Tantum ergo  Latin STB
• Gabriel Fauré — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Gabriel Fauré — Tantum ergo, Op. 55  Latin SATBB
• Gabriel Fauré — Tantum ergo, Op. 65, No. 2  Latin SSA
• L Bossaers Fils — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• César Franck — Tantum ergo  Latin Solo Bass
• Mariano Garau — Tantum ergo  Latin STB
• Mariano Garau — Tantum ergo II  Latin SATB
• Charles H. Giffen — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Charles Gounod — Tantum ergo, CG 217c  Latin TTBB
• Giovanni Battista Grazioli — Tantum ergo  Latin SSA
• Gregorian chant — Tantum ergo  Latin Unison
• Alexandre Guilmant — 3 3-st. Motetten  Latin SAB
• Victor Eugene Hammerel — Tantum ergo  Latin SA
• Johann Michael Haydn — Tantum ergo, MH 404  Latin SATB
• Joseph Haydn — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Oliver Hayes — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• C. Hegmann — Missa Caroli Borromaei  Latin TTB
• Francesco Iannitti — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Nobuaki Izawa — Tantum ergo (2)  Latin SATB
• Nobuaki Izawa — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Carl Jaspers — Tantum ergo in G  Latin SATB
• Jens Klimek — Tantum Ergo  Latin SATB
• Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens — Tantum ergo  Latin TTBB
• Franz Liszt — Tantum ergo S 42/1  Latin SSAA
• Melchiorre Mauro-Cottone — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• M. A. Melvil — Tantum ergo in D  Latin SATB
• M. A. Melvil — Tantum ergo in F  Latin SATB
• Bruce Michez — Tantum ergo in G  Latin SAB
• Miller — Tantum ergo (choral version)  Latin SATB
• Joseph Mohr — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Juan Montes — Genitori  Latin TTB
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Tantum ergo, KV 142  Latin SATB
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Tantum ergo, KV 197  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Novena of Our Lady Mother of Mankind  2 SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Novena of St. joachim  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — O sacrum convivium  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Tantum ergo of the Novena of the Sacrament  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Tantum Ergo of the Septenary of the Sorrows  Latin SATB
• Annibale Orgas — 2 Motteten a 8  Latin SATB.SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Paolo Pandolfo — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Paolo Pandolfo — Tantum ergo II  Latin S
• Gennaro Parisi — Tantum ergo e genitori  Latin BB
• Robert Lucas Pearsall — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Lorenzo Perosi — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Giuseppe Pitoni — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Marcos Portugal — Tantum Ergo  Latin SATB.SATB
• Ettore Pozzoli — Pange lingua  Latin ATB
• Jeffrey Quick — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Oreste Ravanello — Tantum ergo, op. 66/30  Latin SSA
• Oreste Ravanello — Tantum ergo, op. 66/31  Latin SSA
• Max Reger — Tantum ergo  Latin SATTB
• Albert H. RoSewig — Tantum ergo Nr. 38 in B  Latin SATB
• Gioachino Rossini — Tantum ergo  Latin TTB
• Tyler Rusco — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Georg Valentin Röder — 3 Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Tantum ergo  Latin SSAATTBB
• Camille Saint-Saëns — Tantum Ergo - ssa  Latin SSA
• Carl Santner — Tantum ergo (in B-Dur)  Latin SSATB
• Oscar Santos — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Česlovas Sasnauskas — Tantum ergo sacramentum  Latin SATB
• Franz Schubert — Tantum ergo in Es, D 962  Latin SATB
• J. Schwartz — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Franz Schöpf — 2 Tantum Ergo  Latin SATB
• Douglas Walter Scott — Three Aquinas Motets  Latin SATB
• Simon Sechter — Landmesse 4  Latin SAB
• Fábio Soldá — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Stanislav Surin — Tantum ergo  Latin Unison
• Déodat de Séverac — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Giuseppe Tartini — Tantum ergo in d  Latin SSA
• Giuseppe Tartini — Tantum ergo in e  Latin SSA
• Jef Tinel — Tantum ergo  Latin TTB
• Eduard Adolf Tod — Tantum ergo  Latin TTBB
• Traditional — Tantum ergo (2 unison versions)  Latin Unison
• Traditional — Tantum ergo (choral version)  Latin SATB
• Traditional — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Christopher Upton — Tantum ergo (Exeter Benediction)  2 SATB
• Tomás Luis de Victoria — Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini)  Latin SSATB
• Tomás Luis de Victoria — Tantum ergo, I  Latin SATB
• Tomás Luis de Victoria — Tantum ergo, III  Latin SATB
• Louis Vierne — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Scott Villard — Tantum ergo I  Latin SATB
• Scott Villard — Tantum ergo II  Latin SATB
• John Francis Wade — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Samuel Webbe — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Samuel Webbe — Tantum ergo II  Latin STB,SAB
• Samuel Webbe — Tantum ergo III  Latin SATB
• Samuel Webbe — Tantum ergo IV  Latin SSA
• Samuel Webbe — Tantum ergo V  Latin SATB
• Thurlow Weed — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Charles-Marie Widor — Tantum ergo, Op. 18, No. 1  Latin SATB
• Ignatius M Wilkins — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• Franz Xaver Witt — Tantum ergo  Latin SATB
• José Zaninetti — Tantum ergo  Latin Unison

 

Texts and translations

• See Pange lingua, verses 5-6

Latin text

Tantum ergo sacramentum
veneremur cernui,
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui;
praestet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.

Genitori Genitoque
laus et iubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio;
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio.
Amen.

External websites:

• "Tantum ergo" entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.