words from Latin by

Venantius Fortunatus 530-609 AD TRICORN Roland N G Copping ('86)

September 1999
translated by Percy Dearmer 1867-1936

Based on Mode iii Pangue lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis

 
q = 105 Andante cantabile
               
                                   
5 10
1 Horn in F

Sing, my tongue, the glor -ious batt - le, sing the end - i - ng of the fray, o'er the cross, the vict - or's tro - phy, sound the loud tri - um - phant lay, tell how Christ, the world's Re deem - er, as a vict - im won the day.

2 Horn in F                                     
             
  


          
                     
3 Horn in F                


B
    15                   3  
A

                         
20 25

1 Hn           
God in - pi - ty saw man fall - en, shamed and sunk in mis - er - y, when he fell on Death by tast - ing fruit of the for - bid - en tree: Then a - no - ther tree was cho - sen which the world from death should free. There - fore when the a -
tranquillo

 
                                         
3

               
2 Hn

tranquillo

 
3 Hn                                                      
 

                  

                                       
            
30 35

1 Hn 
ppoin - ted ful - ness of the - Hol - ly ti - me wa - s co - me, He was sent who ma - ke - e - th all things fo - rth fr - om Go - d's e - t - er - nal home, th - us h - e came to earth i - n car - nate O - ff sp - ring of a Ma - id - e - n's womb.

              
                              

2 Hn

 
                          
3 Hn
                     

    
C
                      
                         
40 45

3
1 Hn    
Thir - ty - Years a - moungst us dwe - el - ling now at length his hour ful - filled, born for this He meets his Pass -ion, for that this He free - ly willed, On the cr - oss the lamb is lift - ted, where his life blo - od shall be spilled.
mp

            
2 Hn                                      
mp

            
3 3 3
                           
                                  
3 Hn
mf
      

 
D
       
            
50 55

1 Hn           
To the Tri - ni - ty be glor - y, to the Fath - er and the Son, with the co - et - ter - nal Spir - it, ev - er Three and


f

                             
2 Hn
   
f

        
          
       
3 Hn
f    

   
E q = 74

               
60 rallentando
1 Hn      
ev - er One, One in love and One in splen - dour, while un - end - ing a - ges run. A - - - men.
mf
              
                             
2 Hn          
mf
f
  
              
                 

  
3 Hn
 mf 
f
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