Tantum Ergo Sacramentum (“Down in adoration falling”)
Many other melodies and translations can be used, or this hymn may be sung in Latin. Search the index for Pange Lingua Gloriosi by St. Thomas Aquinas (†1274).
Tune: “St Thomas (Webbe)” • 87 87 87
Veni Sancte Spiritus (“Holy Spirit, Lord of light”)
Translation: Fr. Edward Caswall, Oratorian
Tune: “Amyot” • 777 D
Urbs Jerusalem Beata (“City Celestial, Salem blest”)
Translation: Fr. John Wilfrid Wallace, OSB
First Tune: “St Catherine” • 88 88 88
Urbs Jerusalem Beata (“City Celestial, Salem blest”)
Translation: Fr. John Wilfrid Wallace, OSB
Second Tune: “St Philip” • 88 88 88
Urbs Jerusalem Beata (“Celestial City, Salem blest”)
Translation: Fr. John Wilfrid Wallace, OSB
Third Tune: “Vater Unser” • 88 88 88
Urbs Jerusalem Beata (“City Celestial, Salem blest”)
Translation: Fr. John Wilfrid Wallace, OSB
Fourth Tune: “Angels’ Song 8e” • 88 88 88
Urbs Jerusalem Beata (“Celestial City, Salem blest”)
Translation: Fr. John Wilfrid Wallace, OSB
Fifth Tune: “Stella” • 88 88 88
Urbs Jerusalem Beata (“Celestial City, Salem blest”)
Translation: Fr. John Wilfrid Wallace, OSB
Text only—can be used with any 88 88 88
Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“The Mother stood in woeful wise”)
Translation: Historic Roman Catholic Translation • 1599AD
Tune: “Stabat Mater” • 887
In the 1599AD Preface, Richard Verstegan says: “Notwithstanding the difficulty, these hymns have been so turned into English meter that they may be sung unto the same tunes in English that they bear in Latin.” For this particular translation, the harmonic rhythm must be that of Solesmes Abbey, generally known as the “Classical Solesmes Method.” See the following: (1) Daily Hymn Book (Westminster, 1949) p. 64, by Henri Potiron (d. 1972), Maître de Chapelle de la Basilique du Sacré Coeur et Professeur a l’Institut Grégorien; (2) Liber Cantualis Comitante Organo (Solesmes, 1981) p. 37, by Abbé Ferdinand Portier; (3) Accompaniment to the Music of Holy Week (Gregorian Institute of America, 1957) p. 83, by Dr. Eugene Lapierre, organist at Saint-Alphonse-d’Youville in Montréal.
Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“At the Cross her station keeping”)
Also included in Latin: “Stábat Máter dolorósa”
Translation: Cento by Fr. Edward Caswall (d. 1878); Very Rev’d Dominic Aylward (d. 1872); Denis Florence MacCarthy (d. 1882); Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth (d. 1884); Aubrey Thomas de Vere (d. 1902); Fr. John Fitzpatrick (d. 1929); Hon. Daniel Joseph Donahoe (d. 1930); Msgr. Hugh T. Henry (d. 1946); and Msgr. Ronald A. Knox (d. 1957).
First Tune: “Stabat Mater” • 887
