Missa Sine Nomine a 6 (Kyrie and Gloria)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
About the work
In the year of the Sine Nomine Singers’ 30th anniversary, this programme takes the idea of Sine Nomine and explores what it means for music to have no name. Threaded through the programme are three settings of a Missa Sine Nomine – the opening two movements, the Kyrie and Gloria, by Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; a jubilant setting of the Credo, by Spanish/Mexican composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla; and a sumptuous triple-choir setting of the Sanctus and Benedictus, by German composer Hans Leo Hassler.
Words
Kyrie
Kyrie eleison,
Christe eleison,
Kyrie eleison.
Gloria
Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.
Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, Rex cælestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.
Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris. Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.
Quoniam tu solus sanctus. Tu solus Dominus. Tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.
Kyrie
Lord have mercy,
Christ have mercy,
Lord have mercy.
Gloria
Glory to God in the Highest, and peace and good will to men on Earth.
We praise you, we bless you, we worship you, we glorify You, we give thanks to you for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly king, God the Father almighty.
Lord, only-begotten son, Jesus Christ. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; who takes away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You are seated at the right hand of the Father: have mercy on us.
For you alone are holy, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the most high Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
