Victimae Paschali Laudes

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Victimae paschali laudes is a sequence prescribed for the Roman Catholic Mass of Easter Sunday. It is usually attributed to the 11th century Wipo of Burgundy, chaplain to the German Emperor Conrad II, but has also been attributed to Notker Balbulus, Robert II of France, and Adam of St. Victor.

Victimae Paschali Laudes is one of only four medieval Sequences which were preserved in the Missale Romanum published in 1570 following the Council of Trent (1545-63). Before Trent many feasts had their own sequences1 and about 16 different sequences for Easter were in use.2

Victimae Paschali Laudes is one of the few Sequences that is still in liturgical use today. Its text was set to different music by many Renaissance and Baroque composers, including Busnois, Josquin, Lassus, Willaert, Hans Buchner, Palestrina, Byrd, Perosi, and Fernando de las Infantas. Lutheran hymns derived from Victimae Paschali Laudes include Christ ist erstanden and Christ lag in Todesbanden.

The tenth verse ("Credendum est...") is nowadays omitted (it is not found in the 1923 Liber usualis, but the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia includes it without comment).

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  1. ^ David Hiley, Western Plainchant : A Handbook (OUP, 1993), II.22, pp.172-195
  2. ^ Joseph Kehrein, Lateinische Sequenzen des Mittelalters (Mainz 1873) pp78-90

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