It is an integral part of the Ordinary of the Mass. Vivaldi wrote at least three settings of the hymn, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and two of them survived: RV 588, and RV 589. A third, RV 590, is mentioned only in the Kreuzherren catalog and presumed lost. RV 589 Gloria is a familiar and popular piece among sacred works by Vivaldi.
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" is a doxology that was never spoken, only sung. In Latin, it means "glory to God in the highest". These were the words the company of angels sang to shepherds on the night of the birth of Jesus.
Personent hodie in the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones, image combined from two pages of the source text. "Personent hodie" is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 Medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jacobus Finno (Jaakko Suomalainen), a Swedish Lutheran cleric, and published by T.P. Rutha. What does the name Gloria mean spiritually? Gloria is baby girl name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is English, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish. Gloria name meanings is Woman of glory .