Laudes Christo Redemptori (Jacob Obrecht)

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Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2010-10-19).   Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 545 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: New Obrect Edition, vol. 16, ed. Chris Maas, Utrecht, 1996. Translation (with help from Quintus Translation Svc.), text underlay and musica ficta by John Hetland and the Renaissance Street Singers.

General Information

Title: Laudes Christo Remptori
Composer: Jacob Obrecht
Lyricist: Notker Balbulus (c.840-912)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Liturgical music

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Sequence for Easter, on a text by Notker Balbulus (Swiss monk).

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Original text and translations

Latin text Laudes Christo Redemptori voce modulemur supplici: Omnis in hac die rerum natura jubilans personet immensas Filio Dei gratias. In ara crucis hostiam se pro nobis Christus obtulit Deo patri, morte sua nostra mortificans crimina. Alleluia. Haec est dies quae illuxit post turbida Aethiopum tempora, Christus in qua resurrexit ultra victurus cum carne quam assumpsit de Maria Virgine. Qui ovem cum gaudio patri quam perdiderat humero revexit suo. Ergo die ista exsultemus in qua nobis viam vitae resurgens patefecit Jesus. Astra, solum, mare jocundentur et cuncti gratulentur in caelis spiritales chori. Alleluia.

English translation Praises to Christ the Redeemer by voice let us chant kneeling. Let all the world, on this day rejoicing, resound with boundless thanks to the Son of God! On the altar of the cross, as a sacrifice for us, Christ offered himself to God the Father, by his own death putting to death our sins. Alleluia. This is the day that shone light, after the troubled times of the Ethiopians,* on which Christ rose again to win further victories with the flesh he took on from the Virgin Mary. To the joy of his father, he brought back on his shoulder the lamb he had lost. Therefore let us rejoice on this day on which for us the way of life Jesus revealed by rising again. Let stars, land and sea be overjoyed, and may all the spiritual choirs in heaven give thanks. Alleluia. __________  * Quintus thought this might refer to Simon of Cyrene, said to have carried Jesus' cross. Cyrene was in modern Libya.