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Thread #91495   Message #1740705
Posted By: Haruo
14-May-06 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: In dulci jubilo
Subject: Lyr Add: In dulci jubilo (Monolingual: Latin)
Although "In dulci jubilo" appears to have been macaronic (Latin-German, to be precise) at its creation, and although there exist many macaronic versions of it that substitute another language for the German while retaining the Latin, there are also many monolingual versions. Here is the monolingual Latin version from ingeb.org:

  1. In dulci iubilo
    cantate domino
    nostri cordis gaudium
    in praesaepio
    et fulget ut lux solis
    in matris gremio
    |: ergo merito :|
    iubilizat cor omne
    mentis tripudio

  2. O Jesu parvule
    langueo post te
    laetum fac cor meum
    tu puer optime
    et tuum fer auxilium
    tu puer inclite
    |: trahe me post te :|
    ad regnum patris tui
    tu princeps gloriae

  3. Ubi sunt gaudia
    plena gloria
    ubi canunt angeli
    di nova cantica
    nam sonat vox laetitiae
    in regis curia
    |: eia qualia :|
    laetam mentem faciat
    Christi praesentia

  4. Maria nostra spes
    da, virgo nobilis,
    ne nos repellat fragiles
    tua progenies :|
    nostra dele peccamina
    laudanda species
    |: vitam nobis des :|
    et nostra sit hereditas
    aeterna requies

I'm not sure how the last two lines of each verse are handled, coming as they do after what in the tune as I know it is the end.

Haruo