Gaudeamus omnes

Background

The Gregorian introit Gaudeamus omnes is among the oldest melodies of the repertoire, and with minor adjustments is used for several different feasts in the Latin rite: the California missionary Narciso Duran went so far as to adapt it to all 52 Sundays in a choirbook preserved at Berkeley's Bancroft Library.

Settings by composers

Trent codex 92 (All Saints) SAT Choirbooks of Annaberg (Assumption) SATB Giacomo Battistini (Assumption) SATB Andrea Bianchi SATB.SATB William Byrd (Assumption) SATTB (All Saints) SSATB or AATTB Giovanni Croce ("…omnes in Domino carissimi… beati N.") SATB.SATB Giovanni Paolo Cima (St Stephen) SATB Christoph Dalitz (All Saints and Assumption) SS, ST, TT, AA, AB, or BB Frédéric Debons (All Saints) SAB Carlo Gesualdo (All Saints) SSATTB Heinrich Isaac All Saints SATB Assumption SATB Visitation SATB Mary Magdalen SATB Nativity of the BVM SATB

Jacquet de Mantua (Assumption) SATTB Joachim Kelecom SAB, setting for All Saints Karl Kempter (Assumption) (with verse from Psalm 45) SSAATTBB Jens Klimek (first line of text only) SSAA or SATB Peter Philips (both for St. Thomas Becket) SSATB (1612) SATB.SATB (1613) Teodoro Riccio (All Saints) SATTBB Andrea Rota SATB.AATB (substituting "solemnitate" for "Assumptione") André Vierendeels All Saints I SATB All Saints II SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Nicolas Gombert — Gaudeamus omnes

Text and translations

The following variants appear on CPDL:

Latin text Gaudeamus omnes in Domino diem festum celebrantes Variant 1 (Assumption) in honorem beatae Mariae Virginis, de cujus Assumptione gaudent Angeli et collaudant Archangeli Filium Dei. Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum; dico ego opera mea Regi. Gloria Patri… Variant 2 (All Saints) sub honore Sanctorum omnium: de quorum solemnitate gaudent angeli, et collaudant Filium Dei. Ps. Exsultate iusti in Domino: rectos decet collaudatio. Gloria Patri… Variant 3 (St. Stephen) ob honorem sancti Stephani di cuius solemnitate gaudent angeli. Variant 4 (St Thomas) sub honore beati Thomae martyris di cuius passione gaudent angeli, et collaudant Filium Dei.

English translation Let us all rejoice in the Lord celebrating the feast Variant 1 (Assumption) in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary in whose assumption the angels rejoice, while the Archangels praise the Son of God. My heart hath uttered a good word: I tell my works to the king. Glory be to the Father… Variant 2 (All Saints) in honour of all the saints, in which solemnity the angels rejoice, while the Archangels praise the Son of God. Ring out your joy to the lord, O you just; for praise is fitting for loyal hearts. Glory be to the Father … Variant 3 (St. Stephen) in honour of Saint Stephen in which solemnity the angels rejoice. Variant 4 (St. Thomas) in honour of Saint Thomas the martyr in whose suffering the angels rejoice, praising the Son of God. Translation by Mick Swithinbank