Dixit Dominus ad Adam (Gregorian chant)

Music files

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2021-02-17). Score information: A4, 1 page, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The Antiphon both in Choral notation and transcript.

Title: Dixit Dominus ad Adam
Composer: Anonymous (Gregorian chant)
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1501
Description: An Antiphone for Magnificat at second Vespers on Septuagesima.

Latin text

Dixit Dóminus Ad Adam:
De ligno quod est in médio paradísi, ne comédas:
in qua hora coméderis, morte moriéris

English translation

And the Lord said unto Adam:
From the tree in the midst of the paradise thou shall not eat,
In the hour you eat thou will die the death.