Kyrie
The Kyrie is the first sung prayer in the Ordinary of the pre–1969 Tridentine Mass, and is usually (but not always, as in the case of several Renaissance masses) a part of any musical setting of the Mass. Kyrie movements often have an ternary (ABA) musical structure that reflects the symmetrical structure of the text. Even today the Kyrie is traditionally sung by the cantor, choir, and congregation when it occurs; musical settings of the prayer in styles ranging from Gregorian chant to Folk are popular.
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Settings by composers
- Frank Adlam — Office of Holy Communion English SATB
- Ambrosian chant — Kyrie Greek Unison
- Anonymous — Kyrie (16th cent. English) Greek
- Anonymous — Kyrie Greek SATB
- Anonymous — Kyrie (de Beata Virgine) D-Ju MS 35 Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Kyrie - Orbis Factor 2 Unison
- Anonymous — Kyrie de Beata Virgine Ancient Greek ATT
- Ruggerio Argilliano — Christe eleison Latin SATB.SATB
- Ruggerio Argilliano — Kyrie eleison 1 Latin SATB.SATB
- Ruggerio Argilliano — Kyrie eleison 2 Latin SATB.SATB
- Johannes Brassart — Kyrie - de apostolis Greek SAT
- George de Bruin — Kyrie for Double Choir Ancient Greek SSAATTBB
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Messe en sol mineur Greek SATB
- Adrian Cuello — Señor ten piedad (Kyrie) Spanish SATB
- Christoph Dalitz — A Pentatonic Kyrie Greek SATB
- Christoph Dalitz — A simple Kyrie acclamation Greek SATB
- Ludwig Daser — Kyrie (Inviolata) Greek SATTB
- John Dunstable — Kyrie (Tr. 87, f. 126r) Latin ATB
- Carl-Aage Eliasson — Kyrie Greek SSA
- Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch — Christe eleison a 2 Cori voci Concertante Greek SATB.SATB
- Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch — Kyrie eleison a 16 voci reali Greek SATB.SATB.SATB.SATB
- Andrea Gabrieli — Kyrie a 5, a 8, a 12 Greek SATB.ATBB.ATBB
- Andrea Gabrieli — Kyrie à 5 Greek SATTB
- Giovanni Gabrieli — Kyrie a 12 Latin SATB.SATB.SATB
- Giovanni Gabrieli — Kyrie à 12 (1615) Latin SSAT.ATTB.TBBB
- Mariano Garau — Kyrie Latin STB
- Mariano Garau — Kyrie II Latin SATB
- Charles H. Giffen — Kyrie eleison Greek SATB
- Charles Gounod — Kyrie eleison, CG 69 Latin SSTTB
- Gregorian chant — Kyrie XVI Greek Unison
- John Hake — Kyrie Latin SSAT
- George Frideric Handel — Kyrie Greek SATB
- Oliver Hayes — Baa Baa Black Sheep Kyrie Ancient Greek SATB
- William Hayes — Kyrie Eleison Latin 3 equal voices
- Hyett — Kyrie Latin SATB
- Márton Jakobey — Kyrie Latin TTBB
- Michal Janošík — Kyrie eleison Greek SATB
- Joseph Knapicius — Kyrie Eleison celebramus vitae Latin SATB
- Éric Leroy — Kyrie Greek SATB
- Donato Liberatore — Signore, pietà Italian ST
- Reginald Libert — Kyrie Ancient Greek SST, STT
- Johan Lindegren — Kyrie Swedish SSATB
- Gonçalo Lourenço — Kyrie Latin SATB
- Frances Matthews — Kyrie 2 SSAATTBB
- Felix Mendelssohn — Kyrie Ancient Greek SATB.SATB
- Felix Mendelssohn — Kyrie in c-minor MWV B 12 Latin SATB.SATB
- Nicolas Merques — Kyrie I Greek STT
- Nicolas Merques — Kyrie II Ancient Greek ATT
- Jorge Moreira — Kyrie eleison Greek SATB
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Kyrie in Canon Greek 5 equal voices
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Kyrie in D major, K.91/186i Latin SATB
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Kyrie in D minor, KV 341 Greek SATB
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Kyrie in d minor, KV 90 Latin SATB
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Kyrie in F major, KV 33 Greek SATB
- John Mundy — Kyrie Greek SATB
- William Mundy — Kyrie Latin SSST, SAAT
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Mass in E Flat - II Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Mass in E Flat - III Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Mass in F Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Mass in F of Our Lady Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Mass of Our Lady for December 8 Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Mass of the Purification of Our Lady Latin TTB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Missa Mimosa Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Novena of St. joachim Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Office of Palm Sunday - II Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Office of Palm Sunday I Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Short Mass Latin SATB
- Robert Okeland — Kyrie Latin SSAT
- Marbrianus de Orto — Kyrie (Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis) Latin STTB
- Paolo Pandolfo — Kyrie Latin SATB
- Mogens Pedersøn — Kyrie Gud Fader forbarme dig offuer oss 2 SATTB
- Fabrizio Perone — Kyrie Greek ST
- Markus Pfandler — Kyrie in black Greek SATBB
- Richard Quesnel — Kyrie de la Camerata Greek SA
- Josef Rheinberger — Kyrie, JWV 51 Latin SATB
- Josef Rheinberger — Kyrie, JWV 8 Latin SSATB
- Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck — Kyrie Latin SATB
- Rocco Rodio — Kyrie Adieu mes amours Greek SSATBB
- Johannes Roullet — Kyrie (Paschale) Greek SAT
- Erik Satie — Messe des Pauvres Latin SB
- Franz Schubert — Kyrie in B flat, D45 Latin SATB
- John Sheppard — Kyrie & Haec dies Latin SATTBB
- Vianney Sicard — Kyrie Latin SS
- Caleb Simper — Kyrie Greek SATB
- Heather Soderling — Kyrie eleison Greek SATB
- Spierinck — Kyrie (paschale) Ancient Greek SAT
- Simone Stella — Kyrie eleison Ancient Greek SATB
- Joseph G. Stephens — Kyrie Latin SATB
- Remi Studer — Kyrie en re Latin SATB
- August Söderman — Kyrie (No. 1 from 'Andliga sånger') Greek SATB
- Thomas Tallis — Kyrie eleison Latin TTBB
- John Taverner — Kyrie Le Roy Greek SATB
- Velthur Tognoni — Kyrie Greek SATB,SAATTB
- Christopher Tye — Kyrie Orbis factor Latin ATTB
- Francisco Valls — Christe eleison (Missa Scala Aretina) Greek SSSAATT
- Scott Villard — Kyrie (2010) Latin SATB
- Laurentius Vorda — Kyrie Paschale Greek STTB
- Hugo Wilderer — Kyrie (from Missa) Greek SATB
Text and translations
Greek text Κύριε ελέησον. Kyrie eleison. Signore, pietà. Señor, ten piedad. Senhor, tende piedade de nós. ข้าแต่พระเจ้า ทรงพระกรุณาเทอญ |
English translation Lord, have mercy. Herr, erbarme dich. Heer, ontferm U onzer. Seigneur, prends pitié. Panie, zmiłuj się nad nami. |
Chinese translation 上主,求你垂憐。 Uram, irgalmazz! Panginoon, maawa Ka. Xin Chúa thuong xót chúng con. Herre, forbarm dig over os |
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