Tantum ergo

General information

Tantum ergo comprises the last two verses of the Eucharistic hymn Pange lingua by Thomas Aquinas (13th cent.). These two verses are often sung separately from the complete hymn, and were set to music by many composers.

Settings by composers

anonymous Gregorian chant Anonymous (Corsican) TTTB 'Parisian' tune: GRAFTON or ST. THOMAS and often attributed to John Francis Wade (1711-86) SATB Marcial del Adalid SATB Antonio Bergamo TTB Lina Braghetta Unison Douglas Brooks-Davies English SAT & organ the same, in Latin SAT or SATB & organ Anton Bruckner B flat major SATB E flat major SATB A flat major SATB C major SATB D major SSATB Claudio Casciolini SAT Francesco Antonio Calegari SATB Ian Coleman SA Giovanni Paolo Colonna SATB Johann Melchior Dreyer Gregorian Chant Abel Di Marco Tyler Rusco Arrangement SATB Choral version SATB Unison version Gabriel Fauré Op. 55 SATBB with S or T solo Op. 65 SSA with SSA soli in G flat Major (no opus number) SATB Heinrich Finck SATB (last verse only) Mariano Garau STB Charles H. Giffen SATB Francesco Iannitti SATB Jens Klimek SATB (1st verse only) Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens TTBB Franz Liszt SSAA

Miller SATB Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart KV 142 SATB KV 197 SATB Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATB Lorenzo Perosi SATB Giuseppe Pitoni SATB Marcos Portugal SATB.SATB & orch. Georg Valentin Röder SATB Camille Saint-Saëns SSAATTBB SSA Česlovas Sasnauskas Déodat de Séverac SATB Franz Schöpf SATB Fábio Soldá SATB Giuseppe Tartini SSA or TTB Jef Tinel TTB with organ Tomás Luis de Victoria Genitori Genitoque SATB Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini) SSATB Tantum ergo, I SATB. Tantum ergo, II SATB Tantum ergo, III SATB Tantum ergo, IV SATB Louis Vierne SATB Samuel Webbe I, SATB II, STB, with S solo III, SATB IV, SSA V, SS soli with SATB chorus Thurlow Weed SATB José Zaninetti Unison

Text

Original text and translations may be found at Pange lingua, vv.5-6

Latin text

Tantum ergo sacramentum
veneremur cernui,
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui;
praestet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.

Genitori Genitoque
laus et iubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio;
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio.
Amen.
 

External links

• "Tantum ergo" entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.