Pater Noster Latin Music Sheet

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PaternosterRow is a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade,[1][2] with booksellers operating from the street.[3] Paternoster Row was described as "almost synonymous" with the book trade.[4] It was part of an area called St Paul's Churchyard. In time Paternoster Row itself was used inclusively of various alleys, courts and side streets.

The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during World War II. In 2003 the area was pedestrianised with Paternoster Square, the modern home of the London Stock Exchange, at the west end and a paved area around St Pauls' Coop and an entrance to St Pauls tube station at the East, bounded by St Pauls Churchyard, New Change, Cheapside and Payner Alley. The route of Paternoster Row is not demarcated across the open areas, although there is a road sign at the south of the eastern area, perhaps designating the area as Paternoster Row. Between Payner Alley and Queen's Head Passage/Cannon Alley the road is clearly marked as Paternoster Row. The building to the south, Paternoster House has an address in St Pauls Churchyard (the pedestrian way north of the bounds of the churchyard proper), where its south face is. There are no signs on the next segment up to Paternoster Square, nor around the square. The exit from the south-west corner of the square, along, or very close to. the previous route of Paternoster Row, debouching on Ave Maria Lane - Warwick Avenue opposite Amen Corner, is signed as Paternoster Lane.

The street is supposed to have received its name from the fact that, when the monks and clergy of St Paul's Cathedral would go in procession chanting the great litany, they would recite the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster being its opening line in Latin) in the litany along this part of the route. The prayers said at these processions may have also given the names to nearby Ave Maria Lane and Amen Corner.[5]

Another possible etymology is that it was the main place in London where paternoster beads were made. The beads were popular with the laity, as well as illiterate monks and friars at the time, who prayed 50 Paternoster prayers (Latin for "Our Father") three times a day as a substitute for the 150 psalms recited a day by literate monks.[6][7]

Houses in St. Paul's Churchyard were damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666, burning down the old St. Paul's Cathedral. When the new St. Paul's Cathedral was erected, booksellers returned after a number of years.

It was reported that Charlotte Bront and Anne Bront stayed at the Chapter Coffeehouse on the street when visiting London in 1847. They were in the city to meet their publisher regarding Jane Eyre.[10]

A fire broke out at number 20 Paternoster Row on 6 February 1890. Occupied by sheet music publisher Fredrick Pitman, the first floor was found to be on fire by a police officer at 21:30. The fire alarm was sounded at St. Martin's-le-Grand and fire crews extinguished the flames in half an hour. The floor was badly damaged, with smoke, heat and water impacting the rest of the building.[11]

This blaze was followed later the same year on 5 October by 'an alarming fire'. At 00:30 a fire was discovered at W. Hawtin and Sons, based in numbers 24 and 25. The wholesale stationers' warehouse was badly damaged by the blaze.[12]

On 21 November 1894, police raided an alleged gambling club which was based on the first floor of 59 Paternoster Row. The club known both as the 'City Billiard Club' and the 'Junior Gresham Club' had been there barely three weeks at the time of the raid. Forty-five arrests were made, including club owner Albert Cohen.[13]

'...a passage leading through "Simpkins" [which] has a mantle of stone which has survived the melancholy ruins around it. On this stone is the Latin inscription that seems to embody all that we are fighting for :- VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM' [The word of God remains forever].[16]

The ruins of Paternoster Row were visited by Wendell Willkie in January 1941. He said, "I thought that the burning of Paternoster Row, the street where the books are published, was rather symbolic. They [the Germans] have destroyed the place where the truth is told".[18]

Now, as he uttered these words, they stood in the Pleasance bythe mound; and on a sudden there was a low faint cry! They beheld,and O wondrous and strange! there was a small dark creature,clothed in a soft velvet skin, in texture and in hue like the LadyAlice her robe; and they saw, as it went into the earth, that itmoved along without eyes, in everlasting night. Then the ancientpriest wept, for he called to mind all these things, and saw whatthey meant; and he showed them how this was the maiden, who hadbeen visited with doom for her pride. Therefore her rich array hadbeen changed into the skin of a creeping thing and her large proudeyes were sealed up; and she herself had become

Now take ye good heed, Cornish maidens, how ye put on vainapparel, to win love. And cast down your eyes, all ye damsels ofthe west, and look ye meekly on the ground! Be ye good and gentle,tender and true; and when ye see your image in the glass, and beginto be lifted up with the beauty of that shadowy thing, call to mindthe maiden of Morwenna, her noble eyes and comely countenance, thevesture of price and the glittering ring. Sit ye by the wheel, asof old they sate and as ye draw the lengthening wool, sing yeever-more and say,

"Illi autem profecti, prdicaverunt ubique Dominocooperante; annuntiataque est ab eis omni creatur; id est,cunetis nationibus mundi; una fides indita per Deum, una spesdiffusa per Spiritum Sanctum in cordibus credentium, una caritasnata in omnibus, una voluntas, accensum unum desiderium, traditauna oratio; ut omnes omnino ex diversis gentibus, diversisconditionibus, diverso sexu, nobilitate, honestate, servitutediversa, simul dicant uni Deo, et Patri omnium; Pater Noster quies, &c., sicut unum Patrem invocantes, ita unam santificationemqurentes, unum regnum postulantes, unam adimpletionemvoluntatis ejus, sicut fit in coelo optantes; unum sibi panemquotidianum dari precantes et omnibus dimitti debita."

"The vj day of December the Abbot of Westminster went aprocession with his convent. Before him went all the Santuary menwith crosse keys upon their garments, and after went iij formurder: on was the Lord Dacre's sone of the North, was wypyd with ashett abowt him for kyllyng of on Master West, squyre, dwellyngbesyd ... and anodur theyff that dyd long to one of MasterComtroller ... dyd kylle Recherd Eggylston the Comtroller'stayller, and kylled him in the Long Acurs, the bak-sydCharyng Crosse."

15. Norfolk House, St. James's Square. The presentNorfolk House was built from a design by R. Brettingham, in 1742,by Thomas Duke of Norfolk, and finished by his brother Edward in1762. Mr. Cunningham speaks as if the old house, in which GeorgeIII. was born, was still standing.

16. Soho Square. Mr. Cunningham has not corrected hismistake about Mrs. Cornelys's house in this square, (see "Notes andQueries," vol. i., pp. 244, 450.). D'Almaine's, which Mr.Cunningham confounds with Mrs. Cornelys's, was at a former periodtenanted by the Duke of Argyll; then by the Earl of Bradford; and,at a later time, by the celebrated Onslow, who held hisparliamentary levees in the principal drawing-room. The ceilings ofthe best rooms are adorned with paintings by Rebecca and AngelicaKauffman.

Mr. Cunningham has taken some pains to destroy thePennant tradition concerning the name of this square, but hehas not given us one important piece of information, i.e.that between the years 1674 and 1681, the ground was surveyed byGregory King, an eminent architect of those days, whoprojected the square with the adjacent streets. Query, Did it nottake the name of King's Square from the architect? Thisseems very probable; more especially as the statue of Charles I.was not placed in the square until the beginning of the nextcentury. The centre space was originally occupied by a splendidfountain, (the work of Colley Cibber's father), an estimate of the"cost and charges" of which is now before me.

18. Opera House. Mr. Cunningham, speaking of thetranslation of Arsinoe, the first Anglo-Italian operaperformed in this country, says: "The translation was made byThomas Clayton." This is an error, for Clayton himself says, in hispreface: "I was obliged to have an Italian opera translated."Clayton was the composer of the music.

19. James's (St.) Chapel, St. James's Palace. Mr.Cunningham says, "The service is chanted by the boys of the ChapelRoyal." This ought to read, "The service is chaunted by the boysand gentlemen of the Chapel Royal" The musical service ofour cathedrals and collegiate establishments cannot be performedwithout four kinds of voices, treble, alto, tenor, and bass.

20. Bagnigge Wells. Mr. Cunningham makes a strangemistake concerning this once popular place of amusement when hesays, "first opened to the public in the year 1767." A stone, stillto be seen, let into the wall over what was formerly the gardenentrance, has the following inscription:

The gardens were first opened for the accommodation of personswho partook of the mineral springs; subsequently, amusements wereadded; and in Bickham's curious work, The MusicalEntertainer (circa 1738), is an engraving of Tom Hippersleymounted in the "singing rostrum," regaling the company with a song.About half a century after this date, a regular orchestra waserected, and the entertainments resembled Marylebone Gardens andVauxhall. The old house and gardens were demolished in 1842, tomake room for several new streets.

"Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit et ostendit etexinde totum, quod in Deo quritur, re quoque assignat; licetPlato affirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem etinventum enarrari in omnes difficilem."

Possibly Coleridge may have borrowed this from Berkeley'sSiris, 301., where [Greek: theoparadotos philosophia]is cited from "a heathen writer." The word [Greek: theoparadotos]occurs in Proclus and Marinus (see Valpy's StephaniThesaurus), but not in Plato.

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