Requiem for Treble Voices – Carol Barnett

This is a hand-copied manuscript.

Composer: Carol Barnett

Text by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

Instrumentation: SSA

Duration: c 13:30
    -- 1) Introit and Kyrie  [c 2:30]
    -- 2) Absolve  [c 1:45]
    -- 3) Sanctus [c 1 :00] 
    -- 4) Angus Dei 
    -- 5) Lux Aeterna [c 2:15]
    --6) Libera Me  [c 2:45]
    --7) In Paradisum [c 1:00]

Date Written:  2003

Composer’s note:  Inspired by a marvelous performance of the St. Paul Cathedral Boy's Choir given at the 1980 American Guild of Organists convention in Minneapolis, I wrote the "Lux Aeterna." The rest of the Requiem followed gradually, and was finished in November of 1981.

text

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine:
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Exaudi orationem meam
ad te omnis caro veniet.

Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison.

Absolve, Domine,
animas omnium fidelium defunctorum
ab omni vinculo delctorum 
et gratia tua illis succurente,
mereantur evadere iudicium ultionis,
et lucis aeternae beatitudine perfrui.
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus,
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.
Benedictus in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis!

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem sempiternam.

Lux aeterna, luceat eis, Domine,
cum Sanctis tuis in aeternam,
quia pius es. 

Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna,
Libera me, Domine, in die illa tremenda;
quando coeli movendi sunt et terra,
dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Tremens factus sum ego et timeo,
dum discussio venerit et ventura ira.
Dies ire, dies illa,
calamitatis et miserae ;
dies erae, dies illa,
dies magna, amara valde,
dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Libera me, Domine, libera me
de morte aeterna.

In paradisum deducant te angeli,
in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
et aeternam habeas requiem.