Veni Creator Spiritus, for SSAA women’s choir
Program Notes:
Veni Creator Spiritus celebrates the arrival of Pentecost with a setting of the chant Veni Creator Spiritus. The music gradually moves from 4 part imitative counterpoint to a meditative cantus-firmus style setting. This is a setting for SSAA women's choir a cappella.
Instrumentation:
SSAA a cappella
Duration: c. 3 minutes
Text:
VENI, Creator Spiritus,
mentes tuorum visita,
imple superna gratia
quae tu creasti pectora.
Qui diceris Paraclitus,
altissimi donum Dei,
fons vivus, ignis, caritas,
et spiritalis unctio.
Tu, septiformis munere,
digitus paternae dexterae,
Tu rite promissum Patris,
sermone ditans guttura.
Accende lumen sensibus:
infunde amorem cordibus:
infirma nostri corporis
virtute firmans perpeti.
Hostem repellas longius,
pacemque dones protinus:
ductore sic te praevio
vitemus omne noxium.
Per te sciamus da Patrem,
noscamus atque Filium;
Teque utriusque Spiritum
credamus omni tempore.
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