Lift Your Voices And Sing
Personet hodie
For Christmas, Epiphany
Latin words and melody (in Mode I) from Music: Piæ Cantiones, 1582.
English Words by K. W. Simpson
Compare: Personent hodie, with notes and links to translations.
Source: Richard Runciman Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Limited, 1933), Carol #171, pp. 24-25.
1.
Lift your voices and sing;
2.
In the manger austere,
3.
Here the three Magi came;
4.
Let us all sing with mirth, |
1.
Personent hodie
2.
In mundo nascitur,
3.
Magi tres venerunt,
4.
Omnes clericuli, |
Sheet Music from Richard Runciman Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Limited, 1933), Carol #171, pp. 24-25.
Note:
A single copy of Piæ Cantiones found its way into the hands of Rev. John Mason Neale and Rev. Thomas Helmore in 1853, and from this exceptionally rare volume an immense amount of music was saved from oblivion. For more information, see Piæ Cantiones.
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