Alma Redemptoris Mater

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Thu, 2009/11/12 - 5:06pm
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ID: 
598
Composer: 
Palestrina, Giovanni Perluigi da (1525-1594)
Arrangers / Editors: 
Wheeler, Richard W. (1967- )
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Holy Mass
Additional Music at Mass
For the Offertory
For the Communion of the Faithful
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Temporal Cycle
Adventtide
Yuletide (Christmastide)
The Twelve Days of Christmas
In Nativitate Domini
Ad primam Missam (in nocte)
Ad secundam Missam (in aurora)
Ad tertiam Missam (in die Nativitatis Domini)
S. Stephani Protomartyris (26 December)
Epiphanytide
Other
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Any
Composition Type: 
Motet
Texture: 
Polyphonic
Language: 
Latin
Voices: 
SATB
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Musical Style: 
High Renaissance

Voice Parts:
Soprano:


Alto:

Tenor:

Bass:

Lyrics: 

Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli porta manes, Et stella maris, succurre cadenti surgere qui curat populo: Tu quae genuisti, natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem: Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

Translated Lyrics: 

Sweet Mother of the Redeemer, that passage to heaven, gate of the morning, and star of the sea: Assist the fallen,  lift up, you who cure, the people: you who bore to the wonderment of nature, your holy Creator.  Virgin before and after, who received from Gabriel that joyful greeting, have mercy on us sinners.