The Te Deum (also known as Te Deum Laudamus, Ambrosian Hymn or A Song of the Church) is an Early Christian hymn of praise. Early Christianity is commonly defined as the Christianity of the three centuries between the Crucifixion of Jesus ( c A hymn is a type of Song, usually religious specifically written for the purpose of praise adoration or Prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities The hymn remains in regular use in the Roman Catholic Church in the Office of Readings found in the Liturgy of the Hours, and in thanksgiving to God for a special blessing (eg. This article refers to the Liturgy of the Hours as a specific manifestation of public prayer in the Roman Catholic Church. the election of a pope, the consecration of a bishop, the canonization of a saint, the profession of a religious, the publication of a treaty of peace, a royal coronation, etc) either after Mass or Divine Office or as a separate religious ceremony. History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Canonization is the act by which a particular Christian church declares a deceased person to be a Saint and is included in the canon or list of recognized saints A saint (from the Latin sanctus) is a human being to whom has been attributed (and who has generally demonstrated a high level of Holiness and Sanctity A coronation is a ceremony marking the investiture of a Monarch with regal power specifically involving the placement of a crown upon his or her head and the [1] The hymn also remains in use in the Anglican Communion and some Lutheran Churches in similar settings. See also Anglicanism The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther
In the traditional Office, the Te Deum is sung at the end of Matins on all days when the Gloria is said at Mass; those days are all Sundays outside Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide; on all Feasts except Maundy Thursday and the Holy Innocents unless it should fall on Sunday; and on all Ferias during Eastertide. Matins (also known as Orthros or Oútrenya in Eastern Churches) is the early morning or night Prayer service in the Roman Catholic " Gloria in excelsis Deo " ( Latin for "Glory to God in the highest" is the title and beginning of a hymn known also as the Greater Doxology Mass is a fundamental concept in Physics, roughly corresponding to the Intuitive idea of how much Matter there is in an object Advent (from the Latin word la ''adventus'' meaning "coming" is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the Septuagesima (in full Septuagesima Sunday) an observance dropped from the calendar as revised by the Second Vatican Council but still in use in the traditional calendars Lent, in some Christian denominations, is the forty-day-long liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. Passiontide (in the Christian Liturgical year) is a name for the last two weeks of Lent, beginning on Passion Sunday and ending on Holy Saturday A festival is an event usually and ordinarily staged by a local community which centers on some unique aspect of that community In the Christian Liturgical calendar, Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday) is the feast or holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter For the painting by Peter Paul Rubens see " Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens " This article incorporates information from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917 Eastertide, or the Easter Season, or Paschal Time, is the period of fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday In the Liturgy of the Hours of Paul VI, the Te Deum is sung at the end of the Office of Readings on days when the Gloria is sung (in this case Sundays outside Lent and all solemnities, including the octaves of Easter and Christmas, and all feasts) and also on the Sundays of Advent. This article refers to the Liturgy of the Hours as a specific manifestation of public prayer in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Matins (also known as Orthros or Oútrenya in Eastern Churches) is the early morning or night Prayer service in the Roman Catholic Lent, in some Christian denominations, is the forty-day-long liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. Advent (from the Latin word la ''adventus'' meaning "coming" is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the [2] It is also used together with the standard canticles in Morning Prayer as prescribed in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, in Matins for Lutherans, is retained by many other churches of the Reformed tradition. A canticle (from the Latin canticulum, a diminutive of canticum, song is a Hymn (strictly excluding the Psalms taken from the Bible Morning Prayer (also Mattins or Matins) in the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer and other Anglican liturgical texts Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther The Reformed churches are a group of Christian Protestant Denominations formally characterized by a similar Calvinist system of doctrine historically It is also used by the Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Paraklesis (Moleben) of Thanksgiving. A Paraklesis or Supplicatory Canon in the Orthodox Christian Church and Eastern Catholic Churches, is a service of Supplication for the welfare A molében ( Slavonic: молебен also called a molieben, service of intercession, or service of supplication, is a supplicatory
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Origin
Though its authorship is traditionally ascribed to Saints Ambrose and Augustine, on the occasion of the latter's baptism by the former in AD 387, contemporary scholars doubt this attribution, many assigning it to Nicetas, bishop of Remesiana in the late 4th to early 5th centuries. Saint Ambrose (c 338 &ndash 4 April 397) was a bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century In Christianity, baptism ( Greek, "immersing" "performing Ablutions " is the ritual act with the use of water by which one is admitted For the processor see Intel 80387. Events By Place Roman Empire The widowed Emperor Theodosius I Saint Nicetas (ca 335&ndash414 was Bishop of Remesiana, present-day Bela Palanka in the Pirot District of modern Serbia, but which A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Remesiana was an ancient city in what is now Serbia. Its modern name is Bela Palanka. Some scholars have suggested that the hymn is the merger of two (or more) earlier hymns: one to God the Father and another to God the Son. In many religions the supreme Deity ( God) is given the title and attributions of Father. God the Son is the second person of the Trinity in Christian Theology. Under this schema, the second begins with the phrase Tu rex gloriae, Christe. The petitions at the end of the hymn (beginning Salvum fac populum tuum) are a selection of verses from the book of Psalms, appended subsequently to the original hymn. Psalms ( Hebrew: Tehilim, תהילים, or "praises" is a book of the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) included
The hymn follows the outline of the Apostles' Creed, mixing a poetic vision of the heavenly liturgy with its declaration of faith. A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Naming God immediately, the hymn proceeds to name all those who praise and venerate God, from the hierarchy of heavenly creatures to those Christian faithful already in heaven to the Church spread throughout the world. The hymn then returns to its creedal formula, naming Christ and recalling his birth, suffering, and glorification. At this point the hymn turns to the subjects declaiming the praise, both the Church in general and the singer in particular, asking for mercy on past sins, protection from future sin, and the hoped-for reunification with the elect.
Music
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The text has been set to music by many composers, with settings by Bruckner, Verdi, Berlioz, Dvořák, Haydn, Britten, and Mozart among the better-known. Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 &ndash 11 October 1896 was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphonies, masses, and Motets Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( (often pronounced in English as; DVOR-zhahk; September 8 1841 – May 1 1904 was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed Edward Benjamin Britten Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 was an English Composer, conductor, Antonio Vivaldi wrote a setting of the Te Deum (RV 622), but this composition is now lost. The prelude to Charpentier's setting (H. Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - February 24 1704 was a French composer of the Baroque era 146 in Hugh Wiley Hitchcock's catalogue) is well-known in Europe on account of its being used as the theme music for some broadcasts of the European Broadcasting Union, most notably the Eurovision Song Contest. Hugh Wiley Hitchcock (b September 28, 1923; d December 5, 2007) was an American Musicologist. The European Broadcasting Union ( EBU; L'Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision ("UER" and unrelated to the European Union) is a confederation Sir William Walton's Coronation Te Deum was written for the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. Sir William Turner Walton, OM ( March 29, 1902 &ndash March 8, 1983) was a British Composer and A coronation is a ceremony marking the investiture of a Monarch with regal power specifically involving the placement of a crown upon his or her head and the For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Other English settings include those by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, three versions by George Frideric Handel (Utrecht Te Deum, Dettingen Te Deum and Queen's Te Deum) and that of Edward Elgar, his Op. William Byrd (c 1540 &ndash 4 July 1623 was an English Composer of the Renaissance. Thomas Tallis (c 1505 &ndash 23 November 1585) was an English Composer. Henry Purcell (ˈpɜrsəl 10 September 1659 (? – 21 November 1695 was an English Baroque Composer. 34. A version by Father Michael Keating is popular in some Charismatic circles. Mark Hayes is the composer of a recent setting of this text, and British composer John Rutter has composed two, one of which is simplied entitled the traditional "Te Deum," the other "Winchester Te Deum. Mark Hayes may refer to Mark Hayes (golfer (born 1949 Mark Hayes (composer (born 1953 Mark Hayes (Prime Minister John Milford Rutter CBE (born) is an English Composer, choral conductor, editor, Arranger and Record producer " Igor Stravinsky set the first 12 lines of the text as part of The Flood in 1962. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский) ( &ndash 6 April 1971 was a Russian born Composer, considered by many to The Flood A musical play (1962 is a short biblical drama by Igor Stravinsky on the allegory of Noah, originally written as a television Opera
Latin and English Text
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External links
Texts on Wikisource:
- Catholic Encyclopedia entry
References
- ^ The Te Deum (cont.). Wikisource is a Wikimedia project to build a free, Wiki Library of Source texts along with translations into any language Musical Musings: Prayers and Liturgical Texts — The Te Deum. CanticaNOVA Publications. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
- ^ General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
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