Nunc gaudeant

• Nunc gaudeant (“Now let the Church’s mother womb rejoice,” or more literally, “Now let them rejoice”) is a votive antiphon for the Dedication of a Church.¹
  • Votive antiphons are psalmless antiphons—that is, independent Latin songs—attached as riders onto the ends of Office services to honor or appeal to local saints or (increasingly) to the Virgin Mary.²

Score, text, and translation of Nunc gaudeant

1. Nathaniel M. Campbell, Beverly R. Lomer, and Xenia Sandstrom-McGuire, “The Symphonia and Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard von Bingen,” International Society of Hildegard Studies (2014), accessed July 21, 2022, http://www.hildegard-society.org/p/music.html#Symphonia.
2. Richard Taruskin “Chapter 3 Retheorizing Music,” in Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century, Oxford University Press (n.d.), accessed July 21 2022, https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume1/actrade-9780195384819-div1-003008.xml