Te lucis ante terminum

Te lucis ante terminum
General
Use:	Hymn
Liturgical calendar :	Completely
Text origin:	Gregory the Great
Mode :	Second tone , fourth tone , eighth tone
Choral book :	Liber Hymnarius 1983 p. 241 f., Antiphonale Monasticum Solesmes 1934 p. 0183

Te lucis ante terminum is a four-line ( so - called long meter (8.8.8.8) Latin hymn .

text

Latin	Latin ( Urban VIII. , 1632)	Latin ( Paul VI. , 1974)	translation
Te lucis ante términum, rerum Creátor, póscimus, ut sólita cleméntia sis præsul ad custódiam. Procul recédant sómnia et nóctium phantásmata; hostémque nostrum cómprime, ne polluántur córpora. Præsta, Pater omnípotens, per Iesum Christum Dóminum, qui tecum in perpétuum regnat cum Sancto Spíritu. Amen.	Te lucis ante términum, rerum Creátor, póscimus, ut pro tua cleméntia sis præsul et custódia. Procul recédant sómnia et nóctium phantásmata; hostémque nostrum cómprime, ne polluántur córpora. Præsta, Pater piíssime, Patríque compar Unice, cum Spíritu Paráclito regnans per omne sǽculum. Amen.	Te lucis ante terminum rerum creator poscimus ut solita clementia sis praesul ac custodiam. Te corda nostra somnient, te per soporem sentiant, tuamque semper gloriam vicina luce concinant. Vitam salubrem tribue, nostrum calorem refice, taetram noctis caliginem tua collustret claritas. Praesta, Pater omnipotens per Iesum Christum Dominum, qui tecum in perpetuum regnat cum Sancto Spiritu.

history

The text is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great or, albeit disputed by Luigi Biraghi , Ambrose of Milan . Depending on the liturgical calendar , it is sung to different (nine in the antiphonal ) melodies in Compline . The text was slightly reformed by Pope Urban VIII , but received a third variant in 1974 after the Breviary reform within the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council . She restores the first and last verse of the original version, but inserts two new stanzas in place of the second stanza (with the request to ward off the pollutio nocturna ).

Dante quotes the text in Canto 8 of his Purgatory in the Divine Comedy . Francisco Luis Bernárdez translated the hymn into verse.

Settings

Ambrosian

Gregorian in Liber Usualis , (quoted in Benjamin Britten's Curlew River )

Sarum rite

Anonymous , Trent Codex: Te lucis ante terminum, à 3 (1 verse)

Henry Balfour Gardiner : Evening Hymn, "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Thee, Lord, before the close of day") for mixed choir and organ (1908)

Cosmas Alder : Te lucis ante terminum, 3 verses, 5 each
Severus Gastorius : Te lucis ante terminum, 4 verses, SSA
Jiří Laburda : Te lucis ante terminum for mixed choir and organ
Orlando di Lasso : Te lucis ante terminum, SATB, "Procul" with Amen
Giovanni Lenzei : Te lucis ante terminum, all verses, SATTB & Basso continuo
William Mundy "O Lord, the maker of all thing" à 4 (5)
Diego Ortiz : Te lucis ante terminum, à 4, alternatim
Attributed to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina : Te lucis ante terminum, à 4
Thomas Tallis : Te lucis ante terminum, ( festivus tonus ) alternatim, à 5
Thomas Tallis : Te lucis ante terminum, ( ferialus tonus ) alternatim, à 5,
Francisco Valls : Te lucis ante terminum, à 4, string accompaniment
Giaches de Wert : Te lucis ante terminum
Adrian Willaert : Te lucis ante terminum
Tomás Luis de Victoria : Te lucis ante terminum, alternatim à 4
André Vierendeels : Te lucis ante terminum, à 4
Quoted from Jehan Alain : Postlude pour l'Office de Complies

literature

Adalbert Schulte: The Hymns of the Breviary , p. 76
Blume, Der Cursus S. Benedicti Nursini etc. (Leipzig, 1908), pp. 65, 68, 75.
Mearns and Julian, Dictionary of Hymnography (2nd ed., London, 1907), pp. 1135, 1710.
Bagshawe, Breviary Hymns and Missal Sequences (London, sd), No. 30;
Hermann Adalbert Daniel: Thesaurus hymnologicus, Tomus primus: Hymnos continens. Leipzig 1857, p. 51f., No. XLIII. on-line
Donahoe: Early Christian Hymns. New York 1908, p. 41;
Henry: Hymns of the Little Hours. In: Ecclesiastical Review , Sept. 1890, pp. 204-09;
Michel Huglo: Chant grégorien et musique médiévale . 2005, p. IV 328 .
Kent in Shipley, Annus Sanctus, part II, p. 88;
Kronisch, Luis La Iglesia canta, Buenos Aires
Lentini Anselmo, Te decet hymnus, Ciudad del Vaticano, (1984)
A. Lipp: The hymns of the Cistercian breviary . Kirsch, Leipzig 1890, p. 29 .
Liborius Olaf Lumma : The Compline: An Interpretation of the Roman Catholic Night Prayer . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-2878-0 , pp. 44 ff .
Pimont, Les hymnes du breviaire romain, I (Paris, 1874), 124–130
Hymns Ancient and Modern, (London, 1909), No. 34 (contains Latin text with English translation as well as a harmonization of the Gregorian chant)
Adalbert Schulte: The hymns of the breviary. Paderborn 1920, pp. 70f., No. 29. online
Philipp Wackernagel: The German hymn. Vol. 1: From the oldest period to the beginning of the XVII. Century. Leipzig 1864, p. 15, no.9 online
Andreas Weckwerth: Ne polluantur corpora: The fear of ritual defilement in the complete thymn Te lucis ante terminum . In: Roman quarterly . tape 111 , no. 1/2 , 2016, p. 50-69 .

Web links

Wikisource: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) / Te Lucis Ante Terminum - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas Weckwerth: Ne polluantur corpora: The fear of ritual defilement in Komplethymnus Te lucis ante terminum . In: Roman quarterly . tape 111 , no. 1/2 , 2016, p. 50 .

[1] Andreas Weckwerth: Ne polluantur corpora: The fear of ritual defilement in Komplethymnus Te lucis ante terminum . In: Roman quarterly . tape 111 , no. 1/2 , 2016, p. 50 .