Dum complerentur

General information

Source of text is Acts 2:1-4 (altered), the first lesson on the Feast of Pentecost. Variant 1 based on John 20:19. The Liber Usualis gives only a short antiphon for the 1st psalm at Vespers, "Dum complerentur dies Penecostes, errant omens paritur dicentes, alleluia."

Notes on selected settings

Pedro de Cristo SATT ("…sedentes. Alleluia") Francisco Guerrero ATTBarB (vv1-4, see work page) Hans Leo Hassler SSAATTBB (after vv. 1-2, see work page) Gregor Lange SAATB; see work page for the slightly different text Rinaldo del Mel SSATB; see work page for the slightly different text Johannes Nucius ("…sedentes. Alleluia") a 5 SSATB a 6 SSATTB or AATBBB

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SAATTB ("Dum complerentur…totam domum. Alleluia" 2nda pars "Dum ergo essent" ) Benedetto Pallavicino SATB.SATB; Version 2 with variations in Part 1 ("erant omnes pariter...", "et subito factus est sonus...", "Cum ergo esset...") Augustin Pfleger SSATB; see work page for the slightly different text Teodoro Riccio SSAATB or AATTBarB; see work page for the slightly different text Tomás Luis de Victoria SSATB (as Palestrina) Melchior Vulpius a 4 SSAT or SATB (ver. 3) a 18 SSATTB.SAATTB.AATTBB (ver. 3)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Jacques Arcadelt — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SATTB
• Giovanni Matteo Asola — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin ATTB,SAAT
• Giovanni Bassano — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SATB.SATB
• Jacob de Brouck — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SATB.SATB
• Pedro de Cristo — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SATT
• Cristoforo Montemayor — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SSAAT,AATTB
• Johannes Nucius — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes a 5  Latin SATTB
• Johannes Nucius — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes a 6  Latin 
• Benedetto Pallavicino — Dum complerentur  Latin SATB.SATB
• Franciscus de Rivulo — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SAATB,ATTTB
• Franz Sales — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SSATTB
• Tomás Luis de Victoria — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SSATB, AATTB
• Pietro Vinci — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SATTB
• Melchior Vulpius — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes a 18  Latin SSATTB.SAATTB.AATTBB
• Melchior Vulpius — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes a 4  Latin 
• Johannes Wanning — Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes  Latin SSATTBB

Text and translations

Version 1 (Cristo, Nucius)

Latin text 2:1  Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes, erant omnes in eodem loco 2:2  et factus est repente de caelo sonus tanquam spiritus vehementis, et replevit totam domum, ubi erant sedentes.

English translation 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Version 2 (Palestrina, Victoria)

Latin text 2:1  Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes, erant omnes in eodem loco 2:2  et factus est repente de caelo sonus tanquam spiritus vehementis, et replevit totam domum, Alleuia. 2nda pars John 20:19  Dum ergo essent in unum discipuli congregati, propter metum iudæorum 2:2  sonus repente de coelo venit super eos, tamquam spiritus vehementis, et replevit totam domum. Alleluia.

English translation 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house. John 20:19  When therefore the disciples were gathered together in one for fear of the Jews, 2:2  a sound from heaven came upon them, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Alleluia.

Version 3 (both Vulpius)

Latin text

2:1  Dum complerentur dies pentecostes erant omnes unanimiter in eodem loco.
2:2  Et factus est repente de caelo sonitus tanquam sonitus venientis flatus vehementis et replevit totam domum ubi erant sedentes.
2:3  Et visae sunt illis disectae linguae velut igneae, seditque super singulos eorum:
2:4  Ac repleti sunt omnes Spiritu Sancto.
Alleluia.