Ascendo ad Patrem

General information

Motet for Ascension.
Source of text is John 20:17 (the 1st antiphon at Vespers), often followed by words drawn from John 15:26 & 16:22.

Notes on selected settings

Blasius Ammon SAATB or ATTBB (antiphon only) Joachim a Burgk SSATB or AATTB (antiphon only) Jacobus Clemens non Papa SATTB (As second part of Ascendens Christus in altum) Melchior Franck a 6 SSATTB (Adds "Et dum assumptus …") Melchior Franck a 8 SATB.SATB (Adds "Et dum assumptus …") Jacob Handl SSATBB (Adds "Elevatis manibus …") Hans Leo Hassler SSAAT or SATTB (2nd part "Et dum assumptus …") Jean Maillard SATBarB (Adds "Nisi ego abiero …")

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB (Adds "Et dum assumptus…", then 2nd part "Ego rogabo …") Hieronymus Praetorius SSATTB (Adds "Et dum assumptus … mittam vobis Spiritum Sanctum et gaudebit …") Samuel Scheidt SSAATTBB (Adds "Et dum assumptus …") Ludwig Senfl, probably SATB (antiphon only) Melchior Vulpius SSAT or AATB (antiphon only)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Blasius Ammon — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin SAATB,ATTBB
• Joachim a Burgk — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin SSATB,AATTB
• Sulpitia Cesis — Ascendo at Patrem  Latin SATB.SATB
• Melchior Franck — Ascendo ad Patrem meum a 6  Latin SSATTB
• Melchior Franck — Ascendo ad Patrem meum a 8  Latin SATB.SATB
• Jacob Handl — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin SSATBB
• Hans Leo Hassler — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin 
• Jean Maillard — Ascendo ad patrem meum  Latin SATTB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Ascendo ad Patrem  Latin SATTB
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Ascendens Christus in altum  Latin SATTB
• Hieronymus Praetorius — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin SSATTB
• Samuel Scheidt — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin SATB.SATB
• Melchior Vulpius — Ascendo ad Patrem meum  Latin SSAT,AATB
• Johann Walter — Ascendo ad patrem meum  Latin SAATB

Text and translations

Latin text 20:17b  Ascendo ad Patrem meum et Patrem vestrum, Deum meum et Deum vestrum. Alleluia. Variant 1 (Franck, Hassler, Palestrina, Praetorius, Scheidt) Et dum assumptus fuero a vobis, 15:26  mittam vobis Spiritum [Sanctum] veritatis 16:22  et gaudebit cor vestrum. Alleluia. Variant 2, added after "cor vestrum. Alleluia." (Palestrina) 14:16  Ego rogabo Patrem et alium Paracletum dabit vobis, Spiritum veritatis 16:22  et gaudebit cor vestrum. Alleluia. Variant 3 (Handl) Elevatis manibus benedixit eis et ferebatur in coelum. Alleluia. Variant 4 (Maillard) 16:7 Nisi ego abiero paracletus non veniet et dum assumptus fuero mittam vobis eum. Alleluia

English translation 20:17b  I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Alleluia. Variant 1 And when I am taken up from you, 15:26  I will send to you the [Holy] Spirit of truth, and your heart will rejoice. Alleluia. Variant 2 14:16  I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, the Spirit of truth and your heart will rejoice. Alleluia. Variant 3 He blessed them with raised hands and was carried into heaven. Alleluia. Variant 4 Unless I go away, the advocate will not come, and when I am assumed, I will send him to you. Alleluia