Rozhdestvo Tvoye, Khriste Bozhe nash (Alexander Arkhangelsky)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-01-24). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 113 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Na Rozhdestvo Khristovo, 1903. Pre-revolution orthography and transliteration proof-read by Antony Green.
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-01-24). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 113 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Na Rozhdestvo Khristovo, 1903. Post-revolution orthography and transliteration proof-read by Antony Green.
General Information
Title: Rozhdestvo Tvoye, Khriste Bozhe nash
Composer: Alexander Arkhangelsky
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: Church Slavonic
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1903
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Original text and translations
Church Slavonic text
Pre-revolutionary spelling:
Рождество Твое Христе Боже нашъ,
возсія мірови свѣтъ разума:
въ немъ бо звѣздамъ служащіи, звѣздою учахуся.
Тебѣ кланятися, Солнцу правды,
и Тебе вѣдѣти съ высоты Востока:
Господи, слава Тебѣ.
Дѣва днесь Пресущественнаго раждаетъ,
и земля вертепъ Неприступномы приноситъ,
ангели съ пастырьми славословятъ,
волсви же со звѣздою путешествуютъ:
чацъ бо ради родися Отроча младо,
превѣчный Богъ.
Post-revolutionary spelling:
Рождество Твое, Христе Боже наш,
возсия мирови свет разума,
в нем бо звездам служащии, звездою учахуся.
Тебе кланятися, Солнцу правды,
и Тебе ведети с высоты Востока.
Господи, слава Тебе.
Дева днесь Пресущественнаго раждает,
и земля вертеп Неприступному приносит;
Ангели с пастырьми славословят,
волсви же со звездою путешествуют,
нас бо ради родися Отроча младо,
Превечный Бог.
English translation
Troparion: Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, has shone upon the world with the light of knowledge:
for thereby they who adored the stars, through a star were taught to worship thee, the Sun of Righteousness,
and to know thee, the Dayspring from on high. O Lord, glory to thee.
Kontakion: Today the Virgin gives birth to him who is above all being, and the earth offers a cave to him
whom no man can approach. Angels with shepherds give glory, and magi journey with a star.
For unto us is born a young child, the pre-eternal God.