Hodie nobis coelorum
General information
Responsory (mode vi) at Matins on Christmas Day, that is to say following Midnight Mass.
Settings by composers
- Juan Bautista Comes SSAT.SATB.SATB & bc
- Robert Cooper SSSA
- Claude Goudimel SATB or ATTB
- Guglielmo Lipparini SSAATTB or AATTBBB (Adds Noës at end)
- Rinaldo del Mel SSATTB
- Philippe de Monte SSATTB or AATTBB
- Giovanni Battista Mosto SATTB or ATTTB
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino SATB or SAAT
- Pomponio Nenna SATB (adds doxology at the end)
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia
- from Matinas do Natal SATB & orchestra
- "Gradual para a Missa do Galo" [missing S?]ATB & orchestra
- John Sheppard SSAA
- Thomas Tallis TTBB
- John Taverner SSAA
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- Anonymous — Hodie nobis caelorum
- Johann Baptist Benz — Hodie nobis
- Giacomo Antonio Perti — Inno e responsi pel santo Natale a 4 voci con violini
Text and translations
Latin text Hodie nobis coelorum rex |
English translation Today for us the king of heaven is born, |
German translation Heute wurde für würdig befunden, dass der König der Himmel
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