minstrel: Veni Immanuel

[C&HWOOD]

At 05:18 PM 11/26/1998 EST, you wrote:
>The people in my College would like to go caroling as a service to the
>community this year (targeting people who can't be with their families;
>hospital patients,  shut-ins and such.)   I am in the middle of trying to put
>together a lyric-sheet of period Christmas music for easy reference.  
>
>We like to start off with Veni Immanuel, since it's the earliest  holiday
>piece that is still popularly performed.  I have always thought it would sound
>so much prettier in the original Latin.  Does anyone know how I could lay
>hands on the lyrics?
>
Believe it or not, I actually have them within reach of my hand, since I'm
working on creating simple harp arrangements for a number of medieval carols.

>From "The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols" (which by the way, is very
worth getting, having a number of carols within period, and giving evidence
that a number are surprisingly (to me anyway!) period):

Veni, veni, Emanuel
Captivum solve Israel,
Qui gemit in exilio,
Privatus Dei Filio.
Gaude!  Gaude! Emanuel 
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, O Jesse Virgula;
Ex hostis tuos ungula,
De specutous tartari,
Educ, et antro barathri.
Gaude!  Gaude! Emanuel 
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, veni, O Oriens;
Solare now adveniens;
Noctis depelle nebulas,
Dirasque noctis tenebras.
Gaude!  Gaude! Emanuel 
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, Clavis Davidica;
Regna reclude celica;
Fac iter tutum superum,
Et claude vias inferum.
Gaude!  Gaude! Emanuel 
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, veni, Adonai,
Qui populo in Sinai
Legem dedisti vertice
In maiestate glorie.
Gaude!  Gaude! Emanuel 
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Merry singing!

Linetter de Gallardon


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