Te Joseph celebrent (Franz Xaver Witt)

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Editor: Paolo Andreotti (submitted 2006-02-16).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 28 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Te Joseph celebrent
Composer: Franz Xaver Witt

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

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Original text and translations

Latin text 1.

Te, Joseph, celebrent agmina cælitum

Te cuncti résonent christíadum chori

Qui clarus meritis junctus et inclytæ

Casto fœdere Virgini.

2.

Almo cum tumidam germine conjugem

admirans dubio tangeris anxius,

afflatu superi flaminis angelus

conceptum puerum docet.

3.

Tu natum Dominum stringis ad dexteras,

Ægipti profugum tu sequeris plagas:

amissum Solymis qæris et invenis,

miscens gaudia fletibus.

4. (verse not included in Witt version)

Post mortem reliquos sors pia consecrat,

Palmanque emeritos gloria suscipit:

Tu vivens, superis par, frùeris Deo

Mira sorte beatior.

5.

Nobis Summa Trias parce precantibus:

da Joseph meritis sidera scandere,

ut tandem liceat at nos tibi perpetim,

gratum promere canticum.

English translation

1.

Let the hosts of heaven celebrate you, Joseph,

Let all the choirs of Christendom resound you

who, famous for your merits,

was joined to the glorious Virgin in chaste wedlock.

2.

When your betrothed became great with precious seed,

amazement and doubt made you anxious.

It is by the breath of the divine Spirit,

an Angel tells you, that the son has been conceived.

3.

You did embrace the new-born Lord,

and to the furthest Egypt coasts you followed Him in exile,

Lost in Jerusalem, you sought and found Him,

mixing joy with tears.

4.(verse not included in Witt version)

After death most are blest by a loving destiny

and, when they have won the palm, they are welcomed into glory.

But you, while you lived, like the saints above, were with God,

blest more than others by this wondrous lot.

5.

Spare us, highest Trinity, as we pray,

Grant that through Joseph's merits we may rise to heaven,

So that at last we may offer perpetually

our grateful songs.