Ein Kindelein so löbelich (Hieronymus Praetorius)

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(Posted 2012-10-16) CPDL #27358:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-10-16). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 174 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

(Posted 2009-08-09) CPDL #19952: (Sibelius 6)

Editor: Daniel Harmer (submitted 2009-08-09). Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This work is misattributed to Michael Praetorius in the score.

General Information

Title: Ein Kindelein so löbelich
Composer: Hieronymus Praetorius

Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1618 in Cantiones variae, Hamburg, no. 20
Description: Christmas motet in which Praetorius has stitched together settings of three popular carols: "Ein Kindelein so löbelich", "Joseph, lieber Joseph mein", and "Virgo Deum genuit". The last of these is an excerpt from the carol usually known as "Resonet in laudibus", and the second is from a macaronic version of the same text.

Original text and translations

German and Latin text

Ein Kindelein so löbelich
ist uns geboren heute,
von einer Jungfrau säuberlich,
zu Trost uns armen Leuten.
Wär’ uns das Kind’lein nicht gebor’n
so wär’n wir allzumal verlor’n.
Das Heil ist unser alle.
Eia, du süsser Jesu Christ,
das du Mensch geboren bist,
behüt uns vor der Hölle.

Joseph, lieber Joseph mein,
hilf mir wiegen das Kindelein,
Gott, der wird dein Lohner sein
im Himmelreich
der Jungfrauen Kind Maria.
Eia.

Virgo Deum genuit
quem divina voluit clementia.
Omnes nunc concinite,
nato regi psallite,
voce pia dicite:
sit Gloria Christo nato infantulo.
Hodie apparuit in Israel,
quem predixit Gabriel,
est natus rex.