Te Joseph celebrent

Notes on selected settings

Frédéric Debons SATB (v. 1 only) Josef Ohnewald SATB (XIIa - vv. 1-2,4-5) Oreste Ravanello SSA (vv. 1,3 & 5)

Francisco Valls SSAT & BC Franz Xaver Witt SATB (vv. 1-3,5)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin SATB
• Franz Bühler — Te Joseph celebrent, Op. 2/13  Latin SATB
• Frédéric Debons — Te, Ioseph  Latin SATB
• Johann Melchior Dreyer — Hymni brevissimi, Op.5 No.13-24  Latin SATB
• Juan Francés de Iribarren — Te, Joseph, celebrent  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin SATB
• Josef Ohnewald — Hymni vespertini  Latin SATB
• Oreste Ravanello — Te Joseph celebrent, op. 66/19  Latin SSA,SAA,SAT
• Antonio de Salazar — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin SATB
• Domenico Scarlatti — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin Solo high
• Johannes van Schaik — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin SATB
• Francisco Valls — Te Joseph Celebrent  Latin SSAT
• Franciszek Walczyński — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin TTBB
• Franz Xaver Witt — Te Joseph celebrent  Latin SATB,TTBB

Text and translations

Latin text 1. Te, Joseph, celebrent agmina caelitum Te cuncti resonent christiadum chori Qui clarus meritis junctus et inclytae Casto foedere Virgini. 2. Almo cum tumidam germine conjugem admirans dubio tangeris anxius, afflatu superi flaminis angelus conceptum puerum docet. 3. Tu natum Dominum stringis ad dexteras, Aegipti profugum tu sequeris plagas: amissum Solymis qaeris et invenis, miscens gaudia fletibus. 4. Post mortem reliquos sors pia consecrat, Palmanque emeritos gloria suscipit: Tu vivens, superis par, frueris Deo Mira sorte beatior. 5. Nobis Summa Trias parce precantibus: da Joseph meritis sidera scandere, ut tandem liceat nos tibi perpetim, gratum promere canticum.

English translation 1. Let the hosts of heaven celebrate you, Joseph, Let all the choirs of Christendom resound you who, famous for your merits, was joined to the glorious Virgin in chaste wedlock. 2. When your betrothed became great with precious seed, amazement and doubt made you anxious. It is by the breath of the divine Spirit, an Angel tells you, that the son has been conceived. 3. You did embrace the new-born Lord, and to the furthest Egypt coasts you followed Him in exile, Lost in Jerusalem, you sought and found Him, mixing joy with tears. 4. After death most are blest by a loving destiny and, when they have won the palm, they are welcomed into glory. But you, while you lived, like the saints above, were with God, blest more than others by this wondrous lot. 5. Spare us, highest Trinity, as we pray, Grant that through Joseph's merits we may rise to heaven, So that at last we may offer perpetually our grateful songs.