Cum jucunditate

General information

Motet for the Nativity of the BVM and other Marian feasts.

Settings by composers

• Tommaso Bai(+Alleluia) SATB
• Luca Marenzio (visitationem) SATB
• Nicolas Merques AAT
• Peter Philips (devotissimae) SSATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Francisco López Capillas — Cum iucunditate

Text and translations

Latin text Cum jucunditate nativitatem[visitationem] beatae Mariae [virgine devotissimae] celebremus: ut ipsa pro nobis intercedat ad Dominum Jesum Christum. Alleluia.

English translation Let us celebrate with joy the birth[visitation] of the Blessed [and most devout Virgin] Mary: the same who intercedes for us to our Lord Jesus Christ. [Alleluia].