Choirbook 14_27

Choirbook 14_27

Te Ioseph celebrent agmina caelitum

Anonymous (source)

Te Ioseph celebrent agmina caelitum (pp. 149–152)
Tu natum Dominum stringis, ad exteras (pp. 153–156)
Nobis summa Trias parce precantibus (pp. 157–160)

4 vocal parts: [Cantus], [Altus], [Tenor], [Bassus]

C1, C3, C4, F4

Hymnus Te Ioseph celebrent agmina caelitum, strophes 1, 3 and 5 (BR 1671)

VOM: pp. 17 (3rd Sunday after Easter: Patronage of St Joseph, Vespers), 39 (19 March: St Joseph, Vespers)

Hymn

Not present in PD.

This hymn for the feast of St Joseph was inserted in the Roman Breviary in 1671, shortly after the elevation of the feast to Double of the Second Class by Pope Clement X (6 December 1670). The polyphonic setting is by Francesco Cavalli, then maestro di cappella at St Mark’s, or another composer of the Ducal Chapel.

Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1934 (28)

1
Te Ioseph celebrent agmina caelitum,
Te cuncti resonent christiadum chori,
Qui clarus meritis iunctus es inclitae
Casto foedere Virgini.

3
Tu natum Dominum stringis ad exteras
Aegypti profugum tu sequeris plagas,
Amissum Solymis quaeris et invenis
Miscens gaudia fletibus.

5
Nobis, summa Trias, parce precantibus,
Da Ioseph meritis sydera scandere,
Ut tandem liceat nos tibi perpetim
Gratum promere canticum.

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