Adesto Sancta Trinitas (2nd setting) (John Sheppard)

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Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-07-08).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 192 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from John Baldwin's partbooks. Original pitch retained. Plainsong added from the printed Sarum hymnal of 1541.

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Title: Adesto Sancta Trinitas (2nd setting)
Composer: John Sheppard
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTBarB
Genre: Sacred, Office hymn

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 117
Description: An alternatim setting of the hymn at First Vespers, Matins and Second Vespers on Trinity Sunday and the three following days according to the Use of Sarum.

Original text and translations

Latin text Adesto, sancta Trinitas, Par splendor, una Deitas: Qui extas rerum omnium Sine fine principium. Te caelorum militia Laudat, adorat, praedicat, Triplexque mundi machina Benedicit per saecula. Assumus et nos cernui Te adorantes famuli: Votaque preces supplicum Hymnis junge caelestium. Unum te lumen credimus Quod et ter idem colimus: Alpha et O quem dicimus Te laudat omnis Spiritus. Laus Patri sit Unigenito, Laus sit Sancto Spiritui, Trino Deo et simplici. Amen.

English translation 1. Be present, O Holy Trinity, equal in splendour, one deity, you who are of all things the beginning without end. 2. May the heavenly army laud, adore and proclaim you, and may the world’s threefold frame [heaven, Earth, hell] speak well of you forever. 3. And we, too, your humble servants, are here adoring you: let our suppliant prayers and desires be joined to the hymns of heaven. 4. We believe you to be the one light, the same that we revere as threefold. You whom we call Alpha and Omega, let all living souls praise. 5. Praise be to the unbegotten Father. Praise to his only-begotten Son. Praise be to the Holy Spirit, to God the three and one. Amen.