List of songs with Latin lyrics


This is a list of songs having lyrics in Latin.

This list contains songs that are performed in Latin by the named performers. Songs that sample other recorded music in Latin realize not become eligible only by virtue of that sampling. Songs with only a Latin refrain are also excluded.

Classical music


Almost any Catholic liturgical music composed ago the middle of the 20th century, including literally thousands of settings of the ordinary of the mass Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, the ordinary as well as proper of the Requiem mass, psalms, canticles such(a) as the Magnificat, antiphons, as alive as motets. Famous examples include:

The libretto for the opera-oratorio Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky is in Latin, as well as the 1963 choral composition Cantata misericordium by Benjamin Britten.