Palestrina: Ut queant laxis - Sixteen

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Ut queant laxis
(Hymni totius anni, 1589)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Score: www.cpdl.org (Pothárn Imre)
Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum,
Solve polluti labii reatum,
Sancte Joannes.
Nuntius celso veniens Olympo,
te patri magnum fore nasciturum,
nomen, et vitae seriem gerendae
ordine promit.
Ille promissi dubius superni,
perdidit promptae, modulos loquelae:
sed reformasti genitus peremptae
organa vocis.
Ventris obstruso recubans cubili
senseras Regem thalamo manentem:
hinc parens nati meritis uterque
abdita pandit.
Gloria Patri, genitaeque Proli,
et tibi compar utriusque semper,
Spiritus almae Deus unus, omni,
tempore saecli.
Amen.
=== ENGLISH ===
So that your servants may with loosened voices
resound the wonders of your deeds,
clean the guilt from our stained lips,
O Saint John.
The messenger, coming from lofty Olympus,
bears to thy father promise of your greatness,
how he should name thee,
what thy future life’s story would be.
He, doubting the celestial promises,
lost the power of ready speech,
‘til at thy birth voice was restored
to the voiceless.
Thou in thy mother’s womb reclining,
already knew your King, biding in His bridal chamber,
whence the parent by the merits of her offspring,
made clear what was hidden.
Glory to the Father, to His incarnate offspring,
and to the Spirit, equal virtue possessing,
one God,
throughout the eternal ages.
Amen.

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