O magnum mysterium
General Information
Fourth of the nine responsories for Matins of Christmas Day.
The versicle of the responsory (Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum) is missing from most of the polyphonic settings.
Settings by composers
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- Paolo Aretino — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Harry Boulton — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- John J. Brackenborough — O magnum mysterium Latin SSA
- Douglas Brooks-Davies — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- William Byrd — O magnum mysterium - Beata Virgo Latin
- Marcos Castán — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Pedro de Cristo — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Frédéric Debons — O magnum mysterium Latin SAB
- Pedro da Esperança — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Mark D. Falcone — O magnum mysterium, Op. 125 Latin SATB
- Francesco Feroci — O magnum mysterium Latin TTB
- Carlotta Ferrari — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Giovanni Gabrieli — O magnum mysterium Latin SSAB.ATTB
- Giovanni Gabrieli — Quem vidistis pastores a 6 Latin ATTTTB
- Mariano Garau — O magnum mysterium Latin SAA
- Charles H. Giffen — O magnum mysterium Latin SSAT.SATB.ATBB, SSAT.ATBB
- Jacob Handl — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB.SATB
- Iñigo Igualador — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Michael J. Drake, Jr. — O magnum mysterium Latin SA
- Huub de Lange — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Gonçalo Lourenço — O magnum mysterium Latin SAATTBB
- Estêvão Lopes Morago — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Cristóbal de Morales — O magnum mysterium Latin SSAA
- Jorge Moreira — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Giovan Nasco — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Pomponio Nenna — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Matinas do Natal Latin SATB
- Wytze Oostenbrug — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — O magnum mysterium Latin SSAATB
- Jacobus Clemens non Papa — O magnum mysterium Latin SSATTB
- Giacomo Antonio Perti — Inno e responsi pel santo Natale a 4 voci con violini Latin SATB
- Pascal Picard — O magnum mysterium, Op. 29 Latin SATB
- Jeffrey Quick — O magnum mysterium Latin
- Claudio Raffi — O magnum mysterium Latin SSATB
- Andrea Rota — O magnum mysterium a 5 Latin SATTB
- Oscar Santos — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Alessandro Scarlatti — O Magnum Mysterium Latin SATB.SATB
- Vianney Sicard — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Peter Smith — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Johann Stadlmayr — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- J. Guy Stalnaker — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB.SATB
- J. Guy Stalnaker — O magnum mysterium (No. 2) Latin SATB
- J. Guy Stalnaker — O magnum mysterium (No. 3) Latin SATB
- J. Guy Stalnaker — O magnum mysterium (No. 4) Latin SSAATTBB
- J. Guy Stalnaker — O magnum mysterium (No. 5) Latin SATB
- Tomás Luis de Victoria — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB,ATTB
- Pedro Vilarroig — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Adrian Willaert — O magnum mysterium Latin SATB
- Works that currently have no editions available:
- Nicolas Gombert — O magnum mysterium
- Giacomo Antonio Perti — O magnum mysterium
Text and translations
Full text of the responsory
Latin text O magnum mysterium |
English translation O great mystery |
Abbreviated text without the versicle & response
Latin text O magnum mysterium |
English translation O great mystery |
Different text in the Prima pars of the Palestrina setting
(includes part of the responsory to the third lesson) Latin text
O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum
jacentem in praesepio.
Natum vidimus et choros Angelorum
collaudantes Dominum.
Alleluia!
Text of the Morales setting
Latin text O magnum mysterium |
English translation O great mystery |
Other translations
English translation by Allen H. Simon O most awesome mystery English translation by Mick Swithinbank O great mystery
O great mystery, and strange sacrament
Ô grand mystère et merveilleux sacrement |
Italian translation by Daniele Ventre O grande mistero, Spanish translation by Manuel Espejo (Colombia) O gran misterio, Korean translation 아아 크나큰 신비와 German translation by luisen-vocalensemble.de O großes Geheimnis |