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
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).
Second Tune: “Couture” • 887
Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“Under the World-redeeming Rood”)
Translation: Historic Roman Catholic Translation • 1687AD
Tune: “Bayeux” • 887
This translation was allowed to be printed in London since it appeared during the reign of James II of England, a Catholic. He had converted from Anglicanism secretly in 1667, and refused to take a mandatory oath (1673 “Test Act”) denouncing the doctrine of Transubstantiation, instead choosing to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral. A devout man, he once said: “If occasion were, I hope God would give me his grace to suffer death for the true Catholic religion as well as banishment.” His brother, who reigned as King of England until 1685, became a Catholic on his deathbed.
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
Salve Caput Cruentatum (“Hail, O head whose gore pours down thee”)
Translation: Fr. Dominic Popplewell
Tune: “Sillery” • 88 88 8
Salve Caput Cruentatum
Translation: Textus originalis Latinus
Tune: “Sillery” • 88 88 8
Aquinas — Pange Lingua Gloriosi (“Hail, the body bright and glorious”)
Translation: Robert Campbell of Skerrington
Ninth Tune: “Picardy” • 87 87 87
Aquinas — Pange Lingua Gloriosi (“Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s glory”)
Translation: Fr. Edward Caswall, Oratorian
First Tune: “St Thomas (Webbe)” • 87 87 87
Aquinas — Pange Lingua Gloriosi (“Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s glory”)
Translation: Fr. Edward Caswall, Oratorian
Second Tune: “Runnells” • 87 87 87
