Exsurge Domine

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A number of liturgical texts begin with the words Exsurge Domine ("Arise, Lord'). The Liber Usualis lists the following:

Exsurge, quare obdormis Domine?, the introit for Sexagesima based on Psalm 44:24-25
Exsurge Domine, non praevaleat homo, the gradual for Lent III
Exsurge, Domine, et judica causam meam, the third antiphon in the second nocturn of Maundy Thursday tenebrae
Exsurge Domine adjuva…Deus auribus nostris, antiphon before the procession at litanies and at Candlemas

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Jacobus de Kerle: Exurge, quare obdormis
William Byrd: Exsurge quare obdormis
Alessandro Scarlatti: Exsurge Domine, non praevaleat homo
Claudio Macchi: Exsurge, Domine, et libera nos propter nomen Tuum (related to Exsurge Domine adjuva)