Personent Hodie

X:2
T:Personent Hodie
C:Trad arr. Gustav Holst
H:German 1360; printed in Piae Cantiones 1582
N:Arrangement copyright 1924 by Gustav Holst.
M:C
L:1/4
%%staves 1 [{2 3} 4]
K:Eb
V:1 clef=treble
%%MIDI program 91 % choir in unison
z4 | z4 | F    F  c2 |
w:            Per-son-ent
V:2 clef=treble staves=3 brace=3
%%MIDI program 19 % organ
z4 | z4 | [FCA,][FCA,][c2G2C2] |
V:3 clef=treble
%%MIDI program 19 % organ
z4 | z4 | z4 |
V:4 clef=bass
%%MIDI program 19 % organ
%%MIDI transpose -24
z[f'f][e'e][d'd]|[c'c][bB][aA][gG]|[fF][dD][eE][cC] |
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V:1
B  B  c2 | c  c   f2 |d e c2 |
w:  ho-di-e    vo-ces pu-er-u-lae
V:2
[BE][BE][c2E2] | [cF][cF][f2F2] | [dG][eE][c2E2] |
V:3
zGA2 | AABA | zBBA |
V:4
[gG][eE][aA][gG]|[fF][eE][dD][cC]|[BB,][GG,][AA,][cC]|
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V:1
B   c   e2 |B  c   A2 |G   F  G   E |
w:  Lau-dan-tes iu-cun-de Qui no-bis est
V:2
[BE][cE][e2E2] | [BF][cE][A2C2] |[GB,][FD][GB,][EC] |
V:3
GAB2 | zGGF | DzDz |
V:4
[eE][aA][gG][eE]|[dD][cC][fF][dD]|[gG][bB][gG][gc]|
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V:1
F2 F2 | G   A  B  E | F2 F2 |
w:  na-tus, Sum-mo De-o  da-tus
V:2
[F2A,2][F2A,2] | [GG,][AC][BB,][EG,] | [F2B,2][F2B,2]|
V:3
C2C2 | DEDC | D2D2 |
V:4
[fF][eE][dD][cC]|[BB,][AA,][GG,][cC]|[BB,][AA,][GG,][FF,]|
%
V:1
"^ff"G  A  B2 | B2   B2 | A  B  c2 | c2   c2|
w:       Et de vir, vir, vir, Et de vir, vir, vir,
V:2
z[e'b][d'a][c'g]|[bf][ae][gd][fc]|z[e'b][d'a][c'g]|[bf][ae]g[fc]|
V:3
"^ff"[GE][AF][B2G2]|[B2G2][B2G2]|[AF][BG][c2A2]|[c2A2][c2A2]|
V:4
"^sf"[E4E,4]|[E4E,4]|[E4E,4]|[E4E,4]|
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V:1
G  A  B2 | A  G  F2 | G  F   F   E | HF2 HF2 |]
w:  Et de vir- gi-ne-o   ven-tre pro-cre-a-tus
V:2
z[e'a][d'g][be]|c'[f'c'][e'a][c'f]|[gG][fF][fF][eE]|H[f2c2]H[f2c2]|]
V:3
[GE][AF][B2G2]|[AF][BG][c2A2]|[eB]z[cG]z|H[=A2F2]H[A2F2]|]
V:4
[E4E,4]|[E4E,4]|[eE]z[cC]z|H[f2c2=A2F2]H[f2c2A2F2]|]
W:
W:Personent hodie
W:Voces puerulae,
W:Laudantes iucunde
W:Qui nobis est natus
W:Summo Deo datus,
W:Et de vir, vir, vir,
W:Et de vir, vir, vir,
W:Et de virgineo ventre procreatus.
W:
W:In mundo nascitur,
W:Pannis involvitur,
W:Praesepi ponitur,
W:Stabulo brutorum
W:Rector supernorum.
W:Perdidit, dit, dit,
W:Perdidit, dit, dit,
W:Perdidit spolia princeps infernorum.
W:
W:Magi tres venerunt,
W:Parvulum inquirunt,
W:Parvulum inquirunt,
W:Stellulam sequendo,
W:Ipsum adorando
W:Aurum thus, thus, thus,
W:Aurum thus, thus, thus,
W:Aurum thus, et myrrham ei offerendo.
W:
W:Omnes clericuli,
W:Pariter pueri,
W:Cantent ut angeli,
W:Advenisti mundo,
W:Laudes tibi fundo
W:Ideo, o, o,
W:Ideo, o, o,
W:Ideo gloria in excelsis Deo!
%
%Posted Dec 28th 1999 at ABC-user's by Eric Galuzzo
%as a response to Phil Taylor's christmas gift (see above).
%It is basically identical to Phil's posting, but includes
%a few changes to make it readable with abc2ps, abcm2ps and abc2midi.
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• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/musicaviva.com/tunes/england/personent-hodie/0001

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