Tollite portas
General information
Gradual for Advent and offertory for Christmas Vigil.
Source of text is Psalm 23 (Vulgate, altered).
Settings by composers
- Gregorian chant
- William Byrd SATTB
- Christoph Dalitz SAB
- Giovanni Battista Martini SATB
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- Johann Michael Haydn — Tollite portas, MH 387
- Franz Xaver Witt — Tollite portas principes
Text and translations
Latin text 23:7 Tollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, portæ æternales, |
English translation 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors: |