Te Joseph celebrent (Franz Xaver Witt)
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CPDL #10986:
- Editor: Paolo Andreotti (added 2006-02-16). Score information: A4, 1 pages, 28 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: hyphens missing
General Information
Title: Te Joseph celebrent
Composer: Franz Xaver Witt
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
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Original text and translations
Latin text
1.
- Te, Joseph, celebrent agmina cælitum
- Te cuncti résonent christíadum chori
- Qui clarus meritis junctus et inclytæ
- Casto fœdere Virgini.
2.
- Almo cum tumidam germine conjugem
- admirans dubio tangeris anxius,
- afflatu superi flaminis angelus
- conceptum puerum docet.
3.
- Tu natum Dominum stringis ad dexteras,
- Ægipti profugum tu sequeris plagas:
- amissum Solymis qæris et invenis,
- miscens gaudia fletibus.
4.
- Nobis Summa Trias parce precantibus:
- da Joseph meritis sidera scandere,
- ut tandem liceat at nos tibi perpetim,
- gratum promere canticum.
English translation
1. Let the hosts of heaven celebrate you, Joseph, Let all the choirs of Christendom resound you who, famous for your merits, was joined to the glorious Virgin in chaste wedlock.
2. When your betrothed became great with precious seed, amazement and doubt made you anxious. It is by the breath of the divine Spirit, an Angel tells you, that the son has been conceived.
3. You did embrace the new-born Lord, and to the furthest Egypt coasts you followed Him in exile, Lost in Jerusalem, you sought and found Him, mixing joy with tears.
4.
Spare us, highest Trinity, as we pray, Grant that through Joseph's merits we may rise to heaven, So that at last we may offer perpetually our grateful songs.