Haec dies

Heac dies is an antiphon text associated with Easter, and is used as the gradual at the masses of Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and in place of the hymn at vespers.

Settings by composers

• Felice Anerio — Haec dies quam fecit Dominus  Latin SATB.SATB.SATB
• Anonymous — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Jacques Arcadelt — Haec dies  Latin SATB, ATTB
• William Byrd — Haec dies - Alleluia Pascha nostrum  Latin AATTB
• William Byrd — Haec dies a 3  Latin SAT, ATT, SAB
• William Byrd — Haec dies a 6  Latin SSATTB
• Franz Bühler — Haec dies, Op. 2/5  Latin SATB
• Anton Diabelli — 2 Gradualia  Latin SAB
• Ignazio Donati — Alleluia, Haec dies  Latin SATB
• John Ensdale — Haec dies  Latin TTTB
• Caspar Ett — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Stefano Felis — Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus  Latin SSATB
• Robert Führer — 4 Festoffertorien  Latin SATB
• Franz Xaver Haberl — Haec dies  Latin TTBB
• Johann Evangelist Habert — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Jacob Handl — Haec dies  Latin TTBB.TTBB
• Oliver Hayes — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Marco Antonio Ingegneri — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Heinrich Isaac — Haec dies & Pascha nostrum  Latin SATB
• Nobuaki Izawa — A Domino factum est istud  Latin SATB
• Franz Lachner — 2 Motetten, op. 131  Latin SATB
• Jan Le Febure — Haec dies I  Latin SATB
• Thomas Morley — Haec dies  Latin ATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Haec dies a 4  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Haec dies a 6  Latin SSATTB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Haec dies a 8  Latin SATB.SATB
• Paolo Pandolfo — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Marcos Portugal — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Oreste Ravanello — Haec dies, op. 66/11  Latin SSA
• Conrad Rein — Haec dies quam fecit Dominus  Latin SATB
• Andrea Rota — Alleluia Haec dies a 6  Latin SAATBB
• Jehan Sarton — Haec dies  Latin SATTB
• John Sheppard — Kyrie & Haec dies  Latin SATTBB
• Caleb Simper — King of Kings  English SATB
• Georg Stein — Haec dies  Latin TTBB
• Simone Stella — Haec dies  Latin SSA
• Christoph Straus — Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus a 9  Latin SSAATTTBB
• Francesco Usper — Haec dies  Latin SSATT
• Orazio Vecchi — Haec dies  Latin SATTB
• Ludovico da Viadana — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Nicola Vicentino — Alleluia and Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Samuel Webbe — Haec dies  Latin SATB
• Charles Wood — Haec dies  Latin SSATBB
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Haec dies, ZWV 169  Latin SATB

 

Text and translations

Latin text

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: exultemus et laetemur in ea, alleluya.
Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus: quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. (verse for Easter Sunday)
Dicant nunc Israel, quoniam bonus: quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. (verse for Easter Monday)
Dicant nunc, qui redempti sunt a Domino: quos redemit de manu inimici, et de regionibus cogregavit eos. (verse for Easter Tuesday)

English translation

This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein. Alleluia.