Verbum Patris Hodie — SAB voices, organ by Todd Marchand Sheet Music for SAB Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Todd Marchand

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Todd Marchand

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 3

Arrangement SAB Choir

Publisher Con Spirito Music

Level 2

Product ID 1639230

Genre Christmas Sacred Traditional Christian

Instruments Choir

Product Description

"Verbum Patris Hodie" is a Benedicamus trope an insertion or addition of a text to the end of the mass, in which the dismissal "Benedicamus Domino" ("Let us bless the Lord") is answered with "Deo dicamus gratias" ("Thanks be to God").

Dating to the Medieval era and often used in the first Mass of Christmas, "Verbum Patris Hodie" celebrates in its first verse the incarnation of Christ, and recalls in its second verse various elements of the Nativity story as told in the gospels:

1. Verbum Patris hodie processit de Virgine:
virtutes angelice cum canore jubilo. Benedicamus Domino.
(The Word of the Father this day comes forth from a Virgin:
the angelic powers sing with joy. Let us bless the Lord!)
2. Pacem bonis omnibus Nuntiavit angelus:
refulsit pastoribus veri solis claritas. Deo dicamus gratias.
(The angel announced peace to all good men:
light as of the sun shone on the shepherds. Thanks be to God!)

This new setting of the text for SAB voices and organ features unison voices on the verses and voices in harmony on the refrains.

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Voices realized by Cantamus (https://cantamus.app/); organ realized by NotePerformer (https://www.noteperformer.com)

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