Intonent hodie voces ecclesiae
For St Nicholas, Whose Feast Day is Dec. 6
Words: Anonymous, from the Mosburg Gradual, 1360.
Music: Not Stated
Source: Guido Maria Dreves and Clemens Blume, eds., Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, Vol. 21, Cantiones Et Muteti. Lieder und Motetten des Mittelalters. Zweite Folge: Cantiones Feastiae, Morales, Variae. (Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1895), #128, p. 86.
1. Intonent hodie Voces ecclesiae, Dies laetitiae Refulsit in mundo, Ergo laetabundo Corde jubilemus Et ore jucundo.
2. Sanctus hic inclitus, Domino subditus, In cunis positus Ubera vitabat, Corpus macerabat, Et ter in sabbato Puer jejunabat.
3. Parenti misero Submerso puero Mari pestifero Dedit, quod petivit, Preces exaudivit, Submersum puerum Patris custodivit.
4. Tribus virginibus Victu carentibus Reddidit honorera, Subtraxit errorem, Reddens virginibus Virgineum florem.
Sheet Music To "Intonet hodie," the Mosburg Gradual, from Guido Maria Dreves and Clemens Blume, eds., Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, Vol. 20 Cantiones Et Muteti. Lieder und Motetten des Mittelalters. Erste Folge: Cantiones Natalitiae, Partheniae. (Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1895), Number XXII, p. 255.
Editor's Note:
Dreves adds this note:
Grad. ms. Mosburgense anni 1360. Cod. Univ. Monacen. 157. -- 1, 6 nnd 7 werden nach den andern Strophen als Rundreim wiederholt, was nicht ursprunglich erscheint. In Str. 3 und 4 ist die sechste Zeile Gesanges halber erweitert: Submersum sum sum, Submersum sum sum, Submersum puerum.
Several sources state that this may be the (parodied) source for the Latin hymn Personent hodie.
Rev. George Woodward included this sheet music in the notes to "Personent hodie" in his Piae Cantiones:
Rev. Woodward's note at the bottom of this page:
The Words of the above are taken from 'Anal. Hymnica,' XXI, No. 128, p. 86. The Tune of XX (of the same work), No. xxii, Anhang, p. 255. The Words and Tune alike are copied by Dreves from the 'Mosburg Gradual' (Cod. Univ. Monacen. 157) of the year 1360.
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