Simple Chant Singers Tutorial for Alma Redemptoris Mater
Music Director: Jenny Rodriguez
San Diego Diocese San Diego, CA

For those learning this traditional chant or those interested in Gregorian Chant, this tutorial will help you:

learn the notes
pronounce the latin text
rehearse the chant slowly using words & notes

The notes will be introduced first and the pronunuciation guide to follow. The latin text is:

Alma Redemptoris Mater
Quae pervia caeli porta manes
Et stella maris
succurre cadenti
surgere qui curat populo
tu quae genuisti natura mirante
tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius
Gabrielis abore sumens illud Ave.
peccatorum miserere

Translation:

Loving Mother of our Savior, who are forever the gate of heaven and star of the sea, help all your children who, though falling, seek to rise again. You brought forth your own Maker while all nature wondered. you were ever a virgin before and after you received from Gabriel that first solemn "Ave". Have mercy on us sinners.

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