Mater ora filium (Arnold Bax)
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- (Posted 2024-06-14) CPDL #80936:
- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2024-06-14). Score information: A4, 35 pages, 176 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The original source file starts SATB, goes to SATB.SATB, then SATB then SSAATTBB. In this edition I have left the choirs in SATB.SATB so the choir parts sing the same line throughout.
General Information
Title: Mater ora filium
Composer: Arnold Bax
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1926
Description: Originally Published by Murdoch, Murdoch and Co Ltd
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Original text and translations
English text
Mater ora filium,
Ut post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium
Beatorum omnium.
Fair maiden, who is this bairn
That thou bearest in thine arm?
Sir, it is a Kingës Son
That in heav’n above doth won.
Man to Father he hath none,
But himself God alone;
Of a maid he would be born,
To save mankind that was forlorn.
Mater ora filium,
Ut post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium
Beatorum omnium.
Three kings brought him presents,
Gold, myrrh, and frankincense,
To my Son full of might,
King of kings and lord of right.
Mater ora filium,
Ut post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium
Beatorum omnium.
Fair maiden, pray for us
Unto thy Son, sweet Jesus,
That he will send us of his grace
In heav’n on high to have a place.
Mater ora filium,
Ut post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium
Beatorum omnium.