Haec dies

Haec dies is an antiphon text associated with Easter, and is used as the gradual at the masses of Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and in place of the hymn at vespers.

Settings by composers

Anonymous 3/4 in F SATB Jacques Arcadelt AATB William Byrd Haec dies - Alleluia Pascha nostrum AATTB a 3 SAT a 6 SSATTB Anton Diabelli (2 Gradualia) SAB & orchestra Ignazio Donati (Alleluia, Haec dies) SATB violin & bc Caspar Ett SATB Stefano Felis SSATB Robert Führer (4 Festoffertorien) SATB & orchestra Franz Haberl TTBB Johann Evangelist Habert SATB & organ Jacob Handl TTBB.TTBB Oliver Hayes SATB Marco Antonio Ingegneri SATB Heinrich Isaac: 1 setting, both with Gradual Pascha nostrum and without SATB Franz Lachner (2 Motetten Op. 131 SATB Jan Le Febure SATB Thomas Morley 'arranged for ATB'

José Maurício Nunes Garcia SATB & orchestra Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina a 4 SATB a 6 SSATTB a 8 SATB.SATB Paolo Pandolfo SATB & organ Marcos Portugal SATB & orchestra Oreste Ravanello )p. 66/11 SSA Andrea Rota SAATBB John Sheppard: Kyrie & Haec dies (for Vespers) SATTBarB Caleb Simper: King of Kings (see workpage) SATB & organ Georg Stein TTBB Simone Stella SSA Francesco Usper SMsTTBar & bc Orazio Vecchi TTB Ludovico da Viadana SATB Nicola Vicentino: Alleluia and Haec dies SATB Samuel Webbe SATB & organ Charles Wood SSATBB Jan Dismas Zelenka (ZWV 169) SATB & orchestra

Text and translations

Latin text Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: exultemus et laetemur in ea, alleluya. verse for Easter Sunday: Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus: quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. [Pascha nostrum Immolatus est Christus.] verse for Easter Monday: Dicant nunc Israel, quoniam bonus: quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. verse for Easter Tuesday: Dicant nunc, qui redempti sunt a Domino: quos redemit de manu inimici, et de regionibus congregavit eos.

English translation This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein. Alleluia. verse for Easter Sunday: Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. (Psalm 118:1) [Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.] verse for Easter Monday: Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever. (Psalm 118:2) verse for Easter Tuesday: Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. (Psalm 107:2)