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 Marcial del Adalid SATB 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 B flat major SATB a cappella E flat major SATB a cappella A flat major SATB a cappella C major SATB a cappella D major SSATB with organ Claudio Casciolini SAT Francesco Antonio Calegari SATB Carlo Carturan SSA 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 Alexandre Guilmant SAB C. Hegmann (as elevation of Missa Caroli Borromaei) SATB & orchestra Francesco Iannitti SATB Jens Klimek SATB (1st verse only) SATB & piano Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens TTBB & organ Franz Liszt SSAA & organ 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 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 Douglas Walter Scott: Three Aquinas Motets SATB acc. ad lib. Fábio Soldá SATB & strings or keyboard Stanislav Surin unison & organ Giuseppe Tartini SSA or TTB Jef Tinel TTB with organ Eduard Adolf Tod TTBB Christopher Upton: Exeter Benediction SATB & organ (English & Latin) Tomás Luis de Victoria Genitori Genitoque SATB Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini) SSATB Tantum ergo, I SATB. Tantum ergo, II SATB Tantum ergo, III SATB Tantum ergo, IV SATB Louis Vierne SATB & organ 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 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.