Dormi Jesu, mater ridet

Dormi Jesu, mater ridet,
Quae tam dulcem somnum videt,
Dormi Jesu, blandule!
Si non dormis, Mater plorat,
Inter fila cantans orat;
Blande, veni, somnule.

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Gary Bachlund , "The Virgin's Cradle Hymn", 1968. [SAT chorus a cappella]
by Anton von Webern (1883-1945) , no title, op. 16 no. 2 (1923-4), from Fünf Canons, no. 2.

by Ronald Kent Arnatt (1930-) , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", published 1955. [soprano, alto, and SATB chorus a cappella]
by Sarah Beck , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", published 1933. [mixed chorus a cappella]
by Maurice Blower (1894-1982) , "Cradle song", published 1935. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Francis Boott (1813-1904) , "Dormi, Jesu", published 1859. [voice and piano]
by Ian Alfred Copley (1926-) , "Dormi, Jesu", published 1975 [SSAA chorus a cappella], from Two Lullaby Carols, no. ?
by Ervin J. Dunham , "Sleep, sweet babe", published 1972. [soprano and SATB chorus a cappella]
by F. T. Durrant , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", published 1935. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Herrick M. Hayes , "Lullaby", published 1957. [SATB chorus and piano]
by John Tasker Howard (1890-1964) , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", published 1947. [SSA chorus and instruments or piano]
by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908) , "Cradle hymn", published 1894. [voice and piano]
by Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie (1847-1935) , "Dormi, Jesu (The Virgin's cradle hymn)", published 1892. [mezzo-soprano or alto, piano, and violin or violoncello obbligato]
by Charles Macpherson (1870-1927) , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", <<1893.
by Kenneth Meek , "Sleep, sweet babe", published 1951 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Three Christmas Carols, no. ?
by Roland Rogers (1847-1927) , "Lullaby", published 1873. [partsong]
by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901-1986) , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", published 1925. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Jack Meredith Tatton (1901-1970) , "The Virgin's cradle hymn", published 1940.
by Stephen D. Tuttle , "Dormi, Jesu!", published 1943. [soprano, SSAA chorus, and piano]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "The Virgin's cradle song", 1894, first performed 1894 [voice and piano], first published in The Vocalist, April 1905 under the title "A cradle song"
by Charles Lee Williams (1852?-1935) , "Dormi, Jesu!", published 1903. [five-part chorus a cappella]

by Herbert Fryer , "The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn"

FRE French (Guy Laffaille)

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