Tantum ergo

General information

Tantum ergo comprises the last two verses of the Eucharistic hymn Pange lingua by Thomas Aquinas (13th cent.). These two verses are often sung separately from the complete hymn, and were set to music by many composers.

Settings by composers

anonymous Gregorian chant acc. Abel Di Marco Tyler Rusco Arrangement SATB Choral version SATB Unison versions Anonymous (Corsican) TTTB 'Miller' SATB 'Parisian' tune: GRAFTON or ST. THOMAS and often attributed to John Francis Wade (1711-86) SATB a 3 SSA Marcial del Adalid SATB Tantum ergo (Crys Armbrust SSATB (S1 may be sung as a solo) Antonino Barges AATB Antonio Bergamo TTB Mel Bonis SATB Lina Braghetta Unison Heinrich Carl Breidenstein SSA Douglas Brooks-Davies English SAT & organ the same, in Latin SAT or SATB & organ Anton Bruckner Tantum ergo in D Major, WAB 32 SATB a cappella B flat major, WAB 41.1 SATB a cappella E flat major, WAB 41.2 SATB a cappella A flat major, WAB 41.3 SATB a cappella C major, WAB 41.4 SATB a cappella D major, WAB 42 SSATB with organ B flat major (WAB 44) SATB & orchestra Claudio Casciolini SAT Francesco Antonio Calegari SATB Carlo Carturan SSA Giuseppe Corsi da Celano SATB Ian Coleman SA & organ Giovanni Paolo Colonna SATB Johann Melchior Dreyer SATB & orchestra Gabriel Fauré Op. 55 SATBB with S or T solo & organ Op. 65 SSA with SSA soli & organ in G flat Major (no opus number) SATB & organ Heinrich Finck SATB (last verse only) César Franck B & organ, SATB ad lib. Mariano Garau STB Charles H. Giffen SATB Charles Gounod TTBB Alexandre Guilmant SAB Johann Michael Haydn, MH 404 SATB & organ C. Hegmann (as elevation of Missa Caroli Borromaei) SATB & orchestra Francesco Iannitti SATB Nobuaki Izawa SATB Jens Klimek SATB (1st verse only) SATB & piano Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens TTBB & organ Franz Liszt SSAA & organ Bruce Michez SAB & organ

Juan Montes: Genitori TTB Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart KV 142 SATB & orchestra KV 197 SATB & orchestra José Maurício Nunes Garcia with O sacrum convivium SATB & orchestra part of Novena of Our Lady Mother of Mankind SATB & orchestra Tantum ergo of the Novena of the Sacrament SATB & orchestra (1st verse) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATB Lorenzo Perosi SATB Giuseppe Pitoni SATB Marcos Portugal SATB.SATB & orch. Oreste Ravanello op. 66 no.30 SSA op. 66 no.31 SSA Max Reger SATTB 3 settings by Georg Valentin Röder SATB & orchestra Nr. 38 in B by Albert H. RoSewig SATB & piano Gioachino Rossini TTB & piano Camille Saint-Saëns SSAATTBB & organ SSA & organ Oscar Santos SATB Česlovas Sasnauskas Simon Sechter SAB Déodat de Séverac SATB 2 settings by Franz Schöpf SATB & orchestra Franz Schubert Tantum ergo in C, D.460 Soprano, SATB, orchestra Tantum ergo in C, Op. 45, D.739 SATB orchestra Tantum ergo in D, D.750 SATB orch. Tantum ergo in Es, D 962 SATB & soli, orchestra Douglas Walter Scott: Three Aquinas Motets SATB acc. ad lib. Fábio Soldá SATB & strings or keyboard Stanislav Surin unison & organ Giuseppe Tartini I SSA or TTB II SSA Jef Tinel TTB with organ Eduard Adolf Tod TTBB Christopher Upton: Exeter Benediction SATB & organ (English & Latin) Tomás Luis de Victoria (disambiguation) Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini) SSATB Tantum ergo I (SATB), arr. from ""Nobis datus" of Pange lingua gloriosi (Tomás Luis de Victoria) Tantum ergo II (SATB), arr. from "Genitori" of [[Pange lingua gloriosi (Tomás Luis de Victoria)] Tantum ergo, III SATB Tantum ergo IV (SATB), arr. from "Genitori" of [[Pange lingua gloriosi (Tomás Luis de Victoria)] Louis Vierne SATB & organ Scott Villard SATB Samuel Webbe (all with organ) I, SATB II, STB, with S solo III, SATB IV, SSA V, SS soli with SATB chorus Thurlow Weed SATB & organ Charles-Marie Widor (Op. 18, No. 1) SATB & organ Franz Xaver Witt SATB José Zaninetti Unison & keyboard

Text

Original text and translations may be found at Pange lingua, vv. 5-6

Latin text

Tantum ergo sacramentum
veneremur cernui,
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui;
praestet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.

Genitori Genitoque
laus et iubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio;
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio.
Amen.
 

External links

• "Tantum ergo" entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.