Susanni

Bennett, Richard Rodney (1936–2012)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Occasion:
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Nativity of the Lord → General
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Nativity of the Lord → Vigil Mass
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Nativity of the Lord → Mass during the Night
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Nativity of the Lord → Mass at Dawn
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Nativity of the Lord → Mass during the Day
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Epiphany of the Lord → General
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Epiphany of the Lord → Vigil Mass
Proper of Time → Christmas Season → The Epiphany of the Lord → Mass during the Day

Publication Information:
Universal Edition — (1967)

Text Information:
Reference: 14th Century

Lyrics:

A little child there is yborn,
Eia, eia, susanni, susanni, susanni.
And he sprang out of Jesse’s thorn,
Alleluya, alleluya,
To save all us that were forlorn.

Now Jesus is the childes name,
And Mary mild she is his dame,
And so our sorrow’s turned to game.

It fell upon the high midnight.
The stars they shone both fair and bright. 
The angels sang with all their might.

Three kings there came with their presents, 
Of gold and myrrh and frankincense,
As clerkès sing in their sequence.

Now sit we down upon our knee,
 And pray we to the Trinity,
Our help and succor for to be.

Notes: from Five Carols
Submitted by: Anthony DiCello Added: Jun 16, 2022