Dextera Domini

General information

Offertory for Maundy Thursday, Easter Vigil and Third Sunday after Epiphany/OT3
Source of text is Psalm 117:16-17 (Vulgate)

Notes on selected settings

José Maurício Nunes Garcia SATB, 2 violini & bc Valentin Rathgeber SATB (basso seguente & colla voce parts ad lib.) Josef Rheinberger SATB & organ

Robert Schumann SATB & organ (arr. from Waldszenen Op 82) Francesco M. Zuccari SATB (basso seguente ad lib.)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anton Bruckner — Messe für den Gründonnerstag, WAB 9  Latin SATB
• Samuel Friedrich Capricornus — Dextera Domini  Latin SS
• Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Concina — Dextera Domini  Latin SSA
• Francesco Feroci — Dextera Domini  Latin TTB
• César Franck — Dextera Domini  Latin STB
• Gregorian chant — Dextera Domini  Latin Unison
• Oliver Hayes — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Karl Kammerlander — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Franz Kersch — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Battista Martini — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Gradual and Offertory for Maundy Thursday  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Dextera Domini  Latin SATTB
• Valentin Rathgeber — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Josef Rheinberger — 5 Hymnen op. 140  Latin SATB
• Robert Schumann — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB
• Francesco Maria Zuccari — Dextera Domini  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text 117:16  Dextera Domini fecit virtutem, dextera Domini exaltavit me. 117:17  Non moriar, sed vivam, et narrabo opera Domini. French translation 16  La droite du Seigneur a manifesté sa puissance; La droite du Seigneur m'a élevé: 17  Je ne mourrai pas, mais je vivrai, Et je raconterai les œuvres du Seigneur.

English translation 118:16  The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength; the right hand of the Lord has exalted me. 118:17  I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.