Ut queant laxis - Gregorian Chant

Original recording by Kimberly Johnson.

The Ut queant laxis chant starts on successive notes of the scale and is the basis for modern solfege (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti, or here, ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si, the last syllable an acronym for "Sancte Ioannes").

Here's a video with a do-re-mi drone so you can follow the scale throughout the chant:    • Where does "Do Re Mi" come from? Greg...  

With sincere thanks to GregoBase for the score:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.ph...

Text:

Ut queant laxis
resonare fibris
mira gestorum
famuli tuorum,
solve polluti
labiis reatum,
sancte Joannes.

Nuntius celso
veniens Olympo,
te patri magnum
fore nasciturum,
nomen, et vitae
seriem gerendae,
ordine promit.

Ille promissi
dubius superni
perdidit promptae
modulos loquelae;
sed reformasti
genitus peremptae
organa vocis.

Ventris obstrus
recubans cubili,
senseras Regem
thalamo manentem:
hinc parens, nati,
meritis, uterque,
abdita pandit.

Sit decus Patri,
genitaeque proli
et tibi, compare
utriusque virtus,
Spiritus semper,
Deus unus, omni
Temporis aevo.

Amen.

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Translation:

Uttering praises,
Raising songs of your feats,
Meekly your servants
Falter in our errors.
Souls that are filthy
Launder of offenses,
Saint John the Baptist.

You were not born yet
When there came an angel
To tell your father
Tidings of your greatness.
What he must name you
And your way of living:
All were predestined.

Your skeptic father,
Doubting Heaven's promise,
Promptly and fully
Lost all voice and language;
But what was taken,
Ruined past all healing:
Your birth restored it.

Deep in your mother,
From her womb you sensed it;
It was the presence
Of the unborn Savior.
Thus to your parents,
You, before delivery,
Revealed the hidden.

We praise the Father
And the Son begotten;
We praise the Spirit,
Who has equal power.
One God and holy
For all times and seasons,
All generations.

Amen.

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Translation from: https://stcpress.org/pieces/ut_queant...
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut_quea...