University of Dayton eCommons Marian Sheet Music Marian Library Special Collections January 1894 The Cradle of Christ (Stabat Mater Speciosa): A Canticle for Christmas Sir John Bridge Jacopone da Todi John Neal Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/imri_sheetmusic Recommended Citation Bridge, Sir John; da Todi, Jacopone; and Neal, John, "The Cradle of Christ (Stabat Mater Speciosa): A Canticle for Christmas" (1894). Marian Sheet Music. 49. https://ecommons.udayton.edu/imri_sheetmusic/49 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Marian Library Special Collections at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Marian Sheet Music by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. HANDEL J. F. BRIDGE. (\ THE ONE SHILLING & SIXPENCE. * ~~ 11111~11111~1~c1r,1111•artc•I BACH ORATORIOS, CANTATAS, MASSES,&c . PRICE .ONE SHILLING EACH. THOMAS ANDERTON. ]. 0. GRIMM. E. MUNDELLA. THE NORMAN BARON. THE SOUL'S ASPIRATION. VICTORY OF SONG (FEMALE VoICE•,. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. EDWARD HECHT. C.H. H. PARRY. E. ASPA. 0 MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE. BLEST PAIR OF SIRENS. THE GIPSIES. HANDEL. THE GLORIES OF OUR BLOOD AND ASTORGA. CHANDOS TE DEUM. STATE. STABAT MATER. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. H. W. PARKER. BACH. THE WAYS OF ZION. THE KOBOLDS. GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD. MESSIAH (POCKET EDITION). GOD GOETH UP WITH SHOUTING, ISRAEL IN EGYPT (DITTO). PERGOLESI. GOD'S TIME IS THE BEST. JUDAS MACCAB./EUS (DITTO), STABAT MATER (FEMALE VoicBI). MY SPIRIT WAS IN HEAVINESS. bETTINGEN TE DEUM. 0 LIGHT EVERLASTING. UTRECHT JUBILATE. C. PINSUTI. BIDE WITH US. 0 PRAISE tHE LORD. PHANTOMS. A STRONGHOLD SURE. ACIS AND GALA TEA. E. PROUT. MAGNIFICAT, DITTO. EDITED BY J. BARNEY. FREEDOM. THOU GUIDE OF ISRAEL. 0 COME, LET US SING UNTO THE THE HUNDREDTH PSALM. SU, PRICELESS TREASURE. LORD. ~ESUS, NOW WILL WE PRAISE THEE. HAYDN. PURCELL. HEN WILL GOD RECALL MY SPIRIT. THE CREATION (POCKET EDITION), TE DEUM AND JUBILATE, IN D ]. BARNEY. SPRING. SUMMER. AUTUMN. ]. F. H. READ. REBEKAH. WINTER. IN THE FOREST (MALE.VOICES). BEETHOVEN. •FIRST MASS, IN B FLAT. THE CHORAL FANTASIA. FIRST MASS, IN B FLAT (LATIN). ROMBERG. THE CHORAL SYMPHONY (THE VocAL SECOND MASS, IN C (LATIN), ·THE LAY OF THE BELL. THIRD MASS (hiPERIAL). (LATIN,) THE TRANSIENT AND THE ETERNAL. PORTI.ON) 0 • THIRD MASS (IMPERIAL). ENGEDI. ROSSINI. MOUNT OF OLIVES. •TE DEUM. MASS, IN C (LATIN WORDS). DR. HILLER. • STABAT MATER. •MASS, INC. A SONG OF VICTORY. ED. SACH. RUINS OF ATHENS. H. HOFMANN. WATER LILIES. KAREL BENDL. SONG OF THE NORNS (FEMALE VOICES). WATER SPRITE'S REVENGE (FEMALE W. H. SANGSTER. VOICES). HUMMEL. ELYSIUM. FIRSTMASS, IN B FLAT. SCHUBERT. SIR W. STERNDALE BENNETT. SECOND MASS, IN E FLAT. SONG OF MIRIAM. EXHIBITION ODE, 1862. THIRD MASS, IN D. MASS, IN A FLAT. G. R. BETJEMANN. H. H. HUSS. MASS, IN B FLAT. THE SONG OF THE WESTERN MEN. AVE MARIA (FEMALE VOICES). MASS, INC. HUGH BLAIR. MASS, INF, HARVEST-TIDE. F. ILIFFE. MASS, ING. ]. BRAHMS. ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. SCHUMANN. A SONG OF DESTINY. A. JENSEN. THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE ROSE. ]. F. BRIDGE. THE FEAST OF ADONIS. THE KING'S SON, •ROCK OF AGES. N. KILBURN. MIGNON'S REQUIEM. THE INCHCAPE ROCK. THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. ADVENT HYM1'1, "IN LOWLY GUISE." THE LORD'S PRA YE!<.. MANFRED. LEONARDO LEO. NEW YEAR'S SONG. E. BUNNETT. DIXIT DOMINUS. OUT OF THE DEEP (PsALM 130), H. SCHUTZ. C. HARFORD LLOYD. THE PASSION OF OUR LORD. CARISSIM1, THE SONG OF BALDER. JEPHTHAH. E. SILAS. CHERUBINI. HAMISH MAcCUNN. MASS, IN c. •REQUIEM MASS, IN C MINOR. LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER. ALICE MARY SMITH. THIRb MASS, IN A (CORONATION). G. A. MACFARREN. THESONGOFTHELITTLEBALTUNG. E'OURTH MASS, IN C. OUTWARD BO'JND. (MEN'S VOICES). SIR M. COSTA. MAY DAY. ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND THE DREAM. A. c. MACKENZIE. THE RED KING (MEN'S VOICES). F. H. COWEN. THE BRIDE. SPOHR. A SONG OF THANKSGIVING. ]. H. MEE. THE LASTJUDGMENT. ROSALIND F. ELLICOTT. HORATIUS (MALE Vo1cEs). ELYSIUM. ¥2~• J#ifrsT1fJ,~~~NER. ROBERT FRANZ. ST. PAUL~:~;!~JE~~%~)~· HYMN TO ST, CECILIA. PRAISE YE THE LORD (u7TH PsALM ). ELIJAH (POCKET EDITION), E. c. SUCH. NIELS W. GADE. LORELEY. GOD IS OUR REFUGE (PSALM 46). ZION. HYMN OF PRAISE. A. SULLIVAN. SPRING'S MESSAGE. Bd. AS THE HART PANTS. EXHIBITION ODE. CHRISTMAS EVE. THE ERL-KING'S DAUGHTER. ~~grEEN hflA~~ gm.GoF EGYPT CAME. FESTIVAL TE DEUM. A. R. GAUL. NOT UNTO us. A. GORING THOMAS. A SONG OF LIFE. LORD, HOW LONG. THE SUN WORSHIPPERS. G. GARRETT. HEAR MY PRAYER. E. H. THORNE. HARVEST CANTATA. ri~tsi1&~1:'~f'Ji¥.f·¥I~:Jx~:· BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME. R. M. GARTH. MAN IS MORTAL. VAN BREE. THE WILD HUNTSMAN. FESTGESANG (HYMNS OF PRAISE). ST. CECILIA'S DAY. GLUCK. 2~~w~~~.NG (MALE VOICES). HILDA WALLER. ORPHEUS (AcT II.). TO THE SONS OF ART. THE SINGERS (Female Voices). HERMANN GOETZ. • AVE MARIA (SAVIOUR OF SINNERS). c. M. VON WEBER. BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON. •THREE MOTETS (FEMALE VOICES). PRECIOSA. NCENIA. MEYERBEER. •MASS, IN G. A. M. GOODHART. 91ST PSALM (LATIN WORDS), • MASS, IN E FLAT. EARL HALDAN'S DAUGHTER. g1sT PSALM (ENGLISH WORDS). JUBILEE CANTATA. CH. GOUNOD. MOZART. THREE SEASONS. DE PROFUNDIS (130TH PSALM). KING THAMOS. S. WESLEY. DITTO (OUT OF DARKNESS), •FIRST MASS. DIXIT DOMINUS. MESSE SOLENNELLE (LATIN WoRDS). SEVENTH MASS (LATIN). S. S. WESLEY. THE SEVEN WORDS OF OUR SAVIOUR ON THE CROSS. r~~~n~HM~~~~~ATIN). 0 LORD, THOU ART MY GOD. !>~~~l1Il~RS OF JERUSALEM. REQUIEM MASS (LATIN). C. WOOD. •REQUIEM MASS. ODE TO THE WEST WIND The Works marked • have Latin and English Words. LONDON & NEW YORK: NOVELLO, EWER AND CO. ;1~ .:~ c~~r~~!Jl. 136 CHATSWORTH Rnan 7 INSCRIBED TO THE REV. GEORGE PROTHERO, M.A ., SUB-DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. THE CRADLE OF CHRIST (STABAT MATER SPECIOSA) . A CANTICLE FOR CHRISTMAS LATIN HYMN BY GIACOPONE, (13Ttt CENTURY) TRANSLATED BY REV. DR. NEALE, (1 866) SET TO MUSIC FOR SOPRANO AND BARITONE SOLi, CHORUS, AND ORCHESTR.A BY J. FREDERICK BRIDGE, D. Mus. GRESHAM PROFESSOR OF Musrc. Composed for the Heriford Musi·cal Festival, I894. PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE. LON DON & NEW YORK NOVELLO, EWER AND CO. Copyright, 1894, by J. Frederick B ridge. ""/ LONDON: NOVELLO, EWER AND CO., PRINTERS. 3 6 NOTE. "Giacomo da Todi-better known by his familiar name, Giacopone-was one of the great triad of Franciscan ecclesiastical poets : the other two being S. Francis himself and Thomas of Salerno, the author of the Dies lrae. He left a great number of poems, by far the most celebrated being the Stabat Mater dolorosa. This seems, almost from the time of its composition, to have become world-famous, and probably there is not a Church in whose breviary or missal it does not occur. But he also left the companion sequence, Stabat Mater speciosa ; this the hymn of the Cradle as that other of the Cross. It was indeed known to exist, but was buried in such obscurity that Ozanam, in his work on the Franciscan poets, believes himself to have been the first to reprint it."-Rev. Dr. Neale. A copy of this poem, published in 1495, is to be found in the British Museum. I have set the Latin of Giacopone's hymn as it originally stood ; but in adapting Dr. J. Mason Neale's version of it, to be sung in English Cathedrals and Churches, it has been absolutely necessary to make a few verbal alterations. These occur in No. 4, the words having been slightly altered and addressed to Christ. The ninth verse (No. 5), has indeed been left unchanged, but that may be without much strain imaginatively regarded as the request of one of those who stood beside the manger-cradle, and not in the light of a prayer.-J. Frederick Bridge• .. ,, THE CRADLE OF CHRIST (STABAT MATER SPECIOSA). A CANTICLE FOR CHRISTMAS. No. 1.-CHORUS. No. 4.-SOLO (Soprano). FuLL of beauty stood the Mother, Jesus, fount of life still fl.owing, By the manger, blest o'er other, Let me, with her rapture glowing, · Where her little One she lays : Learn to sympathise with Thee : For her inmost soul's elation, Let me raise my heart's devotion, In its fervid jubilation, Up to Christ with pure emotion, Thrills with ecstasy of praise. That accepted I may be. 0 what glad, what rapturous feeling Saviour, let me win this blessing, Filled that blessed Mother, kneeling Let Thy sorrow's deep impressing By the Sole-Begotten One I In my heart engraved remain : How: her heart with laughter bounding, Since Thou didst, from heaven descending, She beheld the work astounding, Deign to bear the manger's tending, Saw His Birth, the glorious SoN. 0 divide with me Thy pain. No. 2.-SOLO (Baritone). Keep my heart its gladness bringing, To Thee, Saviour, ever clinging Who is he, that sight who beareth, Long as this my life shall last; Nor CHRIST'S Mother's solace shareth, Love like that Thine own love, give it, In her bosom as He lay : On Thy Holy Name to rivet, Who is he, that would not render Till this exile shall be past. Tend'rest love for love so tender, Love, with that dear Babe at play ? No : 5.-CHORUS. For the trespass of her nation Virgin, peerless of condition, She with oxen saw His station Be not wroth with my petition, Subjected to cold and woe : Let me clasp thy little Son : Saw her sweetest Offspring's wailing, Let me bear that Child so glorious, Wise men Him with worship hailing, Him, whose Birth, o'er Death victorious, In the stable, mean and low.