Mozart's "Requiem"
WillMize
I'm looking for a translation (Latin - English) of Mozart's "Requiem".
Could anyone either point me in the direction of a good reference book or
possibly transcribe it themselves from sleeve notes or another source and
post them or email them to me?
I'd certainly appreciate it. If you post/send the translation, could
you also cite your reference? Danke.
- Bill Mize
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Still, enclosed with almost every CD of Mozart's Requiem you'll find a booklet
with the latin text and a proper English translation. The translation given
here is not a literal one. Since, as I said, I reproduce this from memory, and
since English is not the language I normally speak, I cannot guarantee all written
here is entirely correct. Especially of Hostias I am not certain.
But it should give you an idea.
Requiem
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Eternal rest give unto them, o Lord, (Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine)
And may perpetual light shine upon them (Et lux perpetua luceat eis)
A hymn praise thee, o Lord, in Sion, (Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion)
And a vote shall be given to thee in Jerusalem (Et tibi votum reddetur in Jerusalem)
Hear my prayer (Exaudi orationem meam)
All flesh becometh thee (Ad te omnis caro veniet)
Eternal rest give unto them, o Lord, (Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine)
and may perpetual light shine upon them. (Et lux perpetua luceat eis)
Kyrie
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Lord, have mercy upon us (Kyrie Eleison)
Christ, have mercy upon us (Christe Eleison)
Lord, have mercy upon us (Kyrie Eleison)
Dies Irae
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Day of wrath and doom impending (Dies irae, dies illa)
Heaven and earth in ashes ending (Solvet saeclum in favilla)
David'd word with Sybil's blending (Teste David cum Sybilla)
Oh what fear man's bossom rendeth (Quantus tremor est futurus)
When the judge from heaven descendeth (Quando judex est venturus)
On whose sentence all dependeth (Cuncta stricte discussurus)
Tuba Mirum
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Wondrous sounds the trumpet flingeth (Tuba mirum spargens sonum)
Through the earth's sepulchres it ringeth (Per sepulchra regionum)
All before the throne it bringeth (Coget omnes ante thronum)
Death is struck and nature quacking (Mors stupebit et nature)
All creation is awaking (Cum resurget creatura)
To it's judge an answer making (Judicanti responsura)
Lo the book exactly worded (Liber scriptus proferetur)
wherein all had been recorded (In quo totum continetur)
Thence shall judgement be awarded (Unde mundus judicetur)
When the judge his seat attaineth (Judex ergo cum sedebit)
And each hidden deed arraineth (Quidquid latet apparebit)
Nothing unavenged remaineth (Nil inultum remanebit)
What shal I, frail man, be pleeding (Quid sum miser tunc dicturus)
Who for me be interceding (Quem patronum rogaturus)
When the just are mercy needing (Cum vix justus sit securus)
Rex Tremendae Majestatis
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King of majesty tremendous (Rex tremendae majestatis)
Who dost free salvation send us (Qui salvandos salvas gratis)
Fount of pity, then befriend us (Salva me, fons pietatis)
Recordare
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Think, kind Jesus, my salvation (Recordare Jesu pie)
caused thy wondrous incarnation (Quod sum cause tuae viae)
Leave me not to reprobation (Ne me perdas illa die)
Faint and weary thou hast sought me (Quarens me sedisti lassus)
On the cross of suffering bought me (Redemisti crucem passus)
Shall such grace be vainly brought me (Tantus labor non sit cassus)
Righteous Judge for sin's pollution (Juste judex ultionis)
Grant thy gift of absolution (Donum fac remissionis)
Ere that day of retribution (Ante diem rationis)
Guilty now I pour my mourning (Ingemisco tamquam reus)
All my shame with anguish owning (Culpa rubet vultus meus)
Spare, o God, thy suppliant groaning (Supplicanti parce deus)
Through the sinful woman shriven (Qui Mariam absolvisti)
Through the dying thief forgiven (Et latronem exaudisti)
Thou to me a hope hast given (Mihi quoque spem dedisti)
Worthless are my prayers and sighing (Preces meae non sunt dignae)
Yet, good lord, in grace complying (Sed tu bonus fac benigne)
Rescue me from fires undying (Ne perenni cremer igne)
With thy sheep a place provide me (Inter oves locum preasta)
From the goat afar divide me (Et ad hoedis me sequestra)
To thy right hand do thou guide me (Statuens in parte dextra)
Confutatis
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When the wicket are confounded (Confutatis maledictis)
Doomed to flames of woe unbounded (Flammis acribus addictis)
Call me with thy saints surrounded (Voca me cum benedictis)
Low I knell in heart's submission (Oro supplex et acclinis)
See like ashes my contrition (Cor contritum quasi cinis)
Help me in my last condition (Gere cura mei finis)
Lacrymosa
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Ah that day of tears and mourning (Lacrymosa dies illa)
from the dust of earth returning (Qua resurget ex favilla)
Man for judgement must prepare him (Judicandus homo reus)
Spare, O God, in mercy spare him (Huic ergo parce deus)
Lord, all pitying, Jesus blessed (Pie Jesu, domine)
Grant them thine eternal rest (Dona eis requiem)
Amen
Domine Jesu Christe
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Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, (Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae)
Free them of all of the lion's mouth, (Libera eas de ore leonis)
That the bottomless pit does not absorb them, (Ne absorbeat eas tartarus)
That they don't fall into the darkness, (Ne cadant in obscurum)
But may the standard bearer Michael (Sed signifer sanctus Michael)
bring them into the holy light (Repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam)
As thou didst promise of old to Abraham (Quam olim Abrahae prosisti)
and his seed (Et semini ejus)
Hostias
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With praise, Lord, we bring gifts to you (Hostias et preces tibi domine laudis offerimus)
Take care of those soules (Tu suscipe pro animabus illis)
Make that they go over from death to life today (Fac ut eas hodie de morte transire at vitam)
As thou didst promise of old to Abraham (Quam olim Abrahae promisisti)
and his seed (Et semini ejus)
Sanctus
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Holy, holy, holy the Lord(Sanctus sanctus Sanctus dominus)
God allmighty, (Deus sabaoth)
Heaven and earth are filled with thy grace (Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua)
Hosanna in the highest (Hosanna in excelcis)
Benedictus
Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the lord (Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini)
Hosanna in the highest (Hosanna in excelsis)
Agnus Dei
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give them rest (Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, done eis requiem)
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give them rest ( ...)
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give them eternal rest ( ... aeternam)
Lux Aeterna
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May eternal light shine upon them, Lord, (Lux aeterna luceat eis, domina)
With thy saints for ever, for thou art good (Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es)
Eternal rest give unto them, o Lord, (Requiem aeternam dona eis domine)
and may perpetual light shine upon them (Et lux perpetua luceat eis)
With thy saints for ever, for thou art goof (Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es)
Jan Dries
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