Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Patricia Neway, Muriel O’Malley, Elizabeth Howell & Karen Shepard
Mary Martin & Patricia Neway
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Mary Susan Locke & Kathy Dunn & Lauri Peters & Joseph Stewart & Evanna Lien & William Snowden & Marilyn Rogers & Mary Martin
Brian Davies & Lauri Peters
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Mary Susan Locke & Kathy Dunn & Lauri Peters & Joseph Stewart & Evanna Lien & William Snowden & Marilyn Rogers & Mary Martin
Marion Marlowe & Kurt Kaznar
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Lauri Peters & Kathy Dunn & Marilyn Rogers & William Snowden & Evanna Lien & Joseph Stewart & Theodore Bikel & Mary Martin
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Marilyn Rogers & William Snowden & Evanna Lien & Joseph Stewart & Lauri Peters & Kathy Dunn & Mary Susan Locke
Patricia Neway
Marion Marlowe, Kurt Kaznar & Theodore Bikel
Mary Martin & Theodore Bikel
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin & Lauri Peters
Theodore Bikel
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Patricia Neway
“Preludium” is the opening number of The Sound of Music, sung by the nuns. They sing Pslam 110, the Dixit Dominus, in Latin. The song is a capella, the only instrument being the sound of bells ringing from the Abbey at the beginning.
[SOLO NUN]
Dixit Dominus Domino meo
Sede a dextris meis
[NUNS]
Donec ponan inimicos tuos
Scabelleum pedum tuorum
Rex admirabilis
Et triumphator nobilis
Dulcedo ineffabilis, ineffabilis
Totus desiderabilis
Totus desiderabilis
Alleluia (Alleluia), alleluia
Alleluia (Alleluia), alleluia (Alleluia)
Alleluia (Alleluia), alleluia (Alleluia)
Alleluia, alleluia
Amen
Preludium was written by Richard Rodgers.
Preludium was produced by Goddard Lieberson.