Dextera Domini

General information

Offertory for Maundy Thursday, Easter Vigil and Third Sunday after Epiphany/OT3
Source of text is Psalm 117:16-17 (Vulgate)

Settings by composers

Gregorian chant Anton Bruckner SATB Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari SATB & bc Giovanni Concina SSA Francesco Feroci TBarB César Franck STB & organ Oliver Hayes SATB Karl Kammerlander SATB Franz Kersch SATB

Orlando di Lasso SATB Giovanni Battista Martini SATB José Maurício Nunes Garcia SATB, 2 violini & bc Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB Valentin Rathgeber SATB (basso seguente & colla voce parts ad lib.) Josef Rheinberger SATB & organ Robert Schumann SATB & organ (arr. from Waldszenen Op 82) Francesco M. Zuccari SATB (basso seguente ad lib.)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Samuel Friedrich Capricornus — Dextera Domini

Text and translations

Latin text 117:16  Dextera Domini fecit virtutem, dextera Domini exaltavit me. 117:17  Non moriar, sed vivam, et narrabo opera Domini.   French translation 16  La droite du Seigneur a manifesté sa puissance; La droite du Seigneur m'a élevé: 17  Je ne mourrai pas, mais je vivrai, Et je raconterai les œuvres du Seigneur.

English translation 118:16  The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength; the right hand of the Lord has exalted me. 118:17  I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.