There Is No Rose

Siegfried, Kevin (b. 1969)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Occasion:

Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Nativity of the Lord → General
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God
Commons → Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary → In Christmas Time

Publication Information:
E. C. Schirmer — 6075 (2004)

Text Information:
Reference: Anonymous, 15th century

Lyrics:

There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu.
Alleluia.

For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space:
Res miranda [marvelous reality].

By that rose we may well see
There be one God in Persons Three.
Pares forma [of the same form].

The angels sang and the shepherds too:
“Gloria in excelsis Deo!” [Glory to God in the highest!]
Gaudeamus [let us rejoice].

Then leave we all this worldly mirth
And follow we this joyful birth:
Transeamus [let us go across].

Notes: SATB with divisi in all parts.
Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Nov 5, 2021 Last updated: Jan 26, 2022