Dormi, Jesu (Fabio Fresi)

From ChoralWiki

Music files

       = BROKEN LINK    = PDF FILE    = MIDI FILE    = POSTSCRIPT FILE   Music Program = NOTATION FILE
= EXTERNAL SITE (DISCLAIMER)    = EXTERNAL PDF FILE    = EXTERNAL MIDI FILE    = SCORE ERROR    = HELP

• CPDL #8008:

Editor: Fabio Fresi (submitted 2004-10-07).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 136 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised 2008.

General Information

Title: Dormi, Jesu
Composer: Fabio Fresi

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description:

External websites:

Original text and translations

Latin text

Dormi, Jesu, mater ridet,
Quae tam dulcem somnum videt
Dormi, Jesu, blandule.

Si non dormis, mater plorat,
Inter fila cantans orat,
blande, veni, somnule.

English translation
by Samuel Coleridge

Sleep sweet babe!
My cares beguiling:
Mother sits beside thee smiling;
Sleep my darling, tenderly.

If thou sleep not,
mother mourneth,
Singing as her wheel she turneth,
come, soft slumber, lullaby.