Here's another video of this Introit , sung by "the three cantores of the major seminary of the diocese of Haarlem The Netherlands ": Here are all the chants for the day, from ChristusRex. Labels: advent , audio , chant propers , chant scores , introits , video. Saturday, November 29, The Advent Office. Margaret, Boston, ; that link sends you to the first page of their breviary from that era. I'll link-in via iFrame at the bottom of the page, too. Here's the chant score for melody 23 from Hymn melodies : The Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood provides an mp3 of the beautiful Conditor alme siderum sung in English to this melody; following is the Latin and one translation from CPDL , which notes that: Conditor alme siderum is an anonymous text from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent.
Creator of the stars of night, Thy people's everlasting light, Jesu, Redeemer, save us all, and hear Thy servants when they call. Thou, grieving that the ancient curse should doom to death a universe, hast found the medicine, full of grace, to save and heal a ruined race. Thou camest, the Bridegroom of the Bride, as drew the world to evening tide, proceeding from a virgin shrine, the spotless Victim all divine.
At whose dread Name, majestic now, all knees must bend, all hearts must bow; and things celestial Thee shall own, and things terrestrial Lord alone.
O Thou whose coming is with dread, to judge and doom the quick and dead, preserve us, while we dwell below, from every insult of the foe. VERBUM supernum prodiens a Patre lumen exiens, qui natus orbi subvenis cursu declivi temporis: Illumina nunc pectora tuoque amore concrema; audita per praeconia sint pulsa tandem lubrica.
Iudexque cum post aderis rimari facta pectoris, reddens vicem pro abditis iustisque regnum pro bonis, Non demum artemur malis pro qualitate criminis, sed cum beatis compotes simus perennes caelites. Sit, Christe, rex piissime, tibi Patrique gloria cum Sancto Spiritu Paraclito, in sempiterna saecula.
