Tantum ergo

General information

Tantum ergo comprises the last two verses of the Eucharistic hymn Pange lingua by Thomas Aquinas (13th cent.). These two verses are often sung separately from the complete hymn, and were set to music by many composers.

Settings by composers

Anonymous (Corsican) TTTB Anonymous SATB Antonio Bergamo TTB Douglas Brooks-Davies English SAT Latin SAT & SATB Anton Bruckner B flat major SATB E flat major SATB A flat major SATB C major SATB D major SSATB Claudio Casciolini SAT Francesco Antonio Calegari SATB Ian Coleman SA Giovanni Paolo Colonna SATB Gregorian Chant Abel Di Marco Tyler Rusco Arrangement SATB Choral version SATB Unison version Gabriel Fauré Op. 55 SATBB with S or T solo Op. 65 SSA with SSA soli in G flat Major (no opus number) SATB Heinrich Finck SATB (last verse only) Mariano Garau STB Charles H. Giffen SATB

Francesco Iannitti SATB Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens TTBB Franz Liszt SSAA Miller SATB Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart KV 142 SATB KV 197 SATB Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATB Lorenzo Perosi SATB Giuseppe Pitoni SATB Marcos Portugal SATB.SATB & orch. Georg Valentin Röder SATB Camille Saint-Saëns SSAATTBB Česlovas Sasnauskas Déodat de Séverac SATB Franz Schöpf SATB Fábio Soldá SATB Giuseppe Tartini SSA or TTB Tomás Luis de Victoria Genitori Genitoque SATB Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini) SSATB Tantum ergo, I SATB. Tantum ergo, II SATB Tantum ergo, III SATB Tantum ergo, IV SATB Louis Vierne SATB Thurlow Weed SATB José Zaninetti Unison

Original text

Original text and translations may be found at Pange lingua, vv.5-6

Latin text

Tantum ergo sacramentum veneremur cernui, et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui; praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui.

Genitori Genitoque laus et iubilatio, salus, honor, virtus quoque sit et benedictio; procedenti ab utroque compar sit laudatio. Amen.

External links

• "Tantum ergo" entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.