Dum complerentur

General information

Source of text is Acts 2:1-4 (altered), the first lesson on the Feast of Pentecost. Variant 1 based on John 20:19. The Liber usualis gives only a short antiphon for the 1st psalm at Vespers, "Dum complerentur dies Penecostes, errant omens paritur dicentes, alleluia."

Setting by composers

Pedro de Cristo SATT ("…sedentes. Alleluia") Francisco Guerrero ATTBarB (vv1-4, see work page) Hans Leo Hassler SSAATTBB (after vv. 1-2, see work page) Johannes Nucius ("…sedentes. Alleluia") a 5 SSATB a 6 SSATTB or AATBBB

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SAATTB ("Dum complerentur…totam domum. Alleluia" 2nda pars "Dum ergo essent" ) Tomás Luis de Victoria SSATB (as Palestrina) Melchior Vulpius a 4 SSAT or SATB (ver. 3) a 18 SSATTB.SAATTB.AATTBB (ver. 3)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Jacques Arcadelt — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Giovanni Matteo Asola — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Giovanni Bassano — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Jacob de Brouck — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Franciscus de Rivulo — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Franz Sales — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Pietro Vinci — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
• Johannes Wanning — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes

Text and translations

Version 1 (Cristo, Nucius)

Latin text 2:1  Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes, erant omnes in eodem loco 2:2  et factus est repente de caelo sonus tanquam spiritus vehementis, et replevit totam domum, ubi erant sedentes.

English translation 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Version 2 (Palestrina, Victoria)

Latin text 2:1  Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes, erant omnes in eodem loco 2:2  et factus est repente de caelo sonus tanquam spiritus vehementis, et replevit totam domum, Alleuia. 2nda pars John 20:19  Dum ergo essent in unum discipuli congregati, propter metum iudæorum 2:2  sonus repente de coelo venit super eos, tamquam spiritus vehementis, et replevit totam domum. Alleluia.

English translation 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house. John 20:19  When therefore the disciples were gathered together in one for fear of the Jews, 2:2  a sound from heaven came upon them, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Alleluia.

Vesion 3 (both Vulpius)

Latin text

2:1  Dum complerentur dies pentecostes erant omnes unanimiter in eodem loco.
2:2  Et factus est repente de caelo sonitus tanquam sonitus venientis flatus vehementis et replevit totam domum ubi erant sedentes.
2:3  Et visae sunt illis disectae linguae velut igneae, seditque super singulos eorum:
2:4  Ac repleti sunt omnes Spiritu Sancto.
Alleluia.