Here is the English translation "The Lamb's high banquet we await" by John Mason Neale of the Ambrosian 5th century hymn Ad cenam Agni providi, set to my Long Metre Double hymn tune St. Croix. Neale's translation has been altered over the years, so I've included scores for the original translation, as well as a common altered version and the Dominican adaptation found in their Hymarium O.P.
The office hymn is for Sunday Vespers from Low Sunday up to the Ascension, but may also be used as a processional hymn at Mass during this time. I've arranged the eight L.M. stanzas in pairs to fit the L.M.D. tune. As for the music, the final, fourth, stanza has a soaring descant.
The accompanying sound file "performs" the hymn tune five times:
(0) organ (as an introduction)
(1) first stanza with organ and voices
(2) second stanza with a cappella voices
(3) third stanza with organ and voices
(4) fourth stanza with organ, voices, and descant
The office hymn is for Sunday Vespers from Low Sunday up to the Ascension, but may also be used as a processional hymn at Mass during this time. I've arranged the eight L.M. stanzas in pairs to fit the L.M.D. tune. As for the music, the final, fourth, stanza has a soaring descant.
The accompanying sound file "performs" the hymn tune five times:
(0) organ (as an introduction)
(1) first stanza with organ and voices
(2) second stanza with a cappella voices
(3) third stanza with organ and voices
(4) fourth stanza with organ, voices, and descant