Dona nobis pacem

Dona nobis pacem (Latin for "Grant us peace") is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the mass. The phrase, in isolation, has been appropriated for a number of musical works, which include:

Classical music

 * "Dona nobis pacem", a traditional round
 * Dona nobis pacem, fugue by Ludwig van Beethoven (now thought genuine), Hess Anh. 57 (1795)
 * Dona nobis pacem, cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1936)
 * Title of the third movement of Symphonie Liturgique by Arthur Honegger (1945)
 * Title of a choral work by Ann Loomis Silsbee (1981)
 * Dona nobis pacem for choir and orchestra by the Latvian composer, Pēteris Vasks (1996)
 * Title of section of Adiemus V: Vocalise by Karl Jenkins (2003)

Literature

 * "Dona Nobis Pacem" is repeatedly quoted in Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock by its antihero Pinkie Brown.
 * "Dona Nobis Pacem" is used in Graham Greene's 1966 novel The Comedians.

Other

 * Included in Bobby Darin's 1960 Christmas album The 25th Day of December
 * The title of a song, from the Present from Nancy LP by the Dutch band Supersister (1970)
 * At the end of Pray Your Gods by Toad the Wet Sprocket (1992)
 * Included in an arrangement of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" recorded by Wayne Watson on One Christmas Eve (1994)
 * A song performed by cast members (as an impromptu choir) in the 1978 M*A*S*H Christmas episode "Dear Sis."
 * Bass guitarist Michael Manring performs an instrumental version on the 1993 Windham Hill compilation A Winter's Solstice IV.
 * Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman performs a song on the 1996 Windham Hill compilation The Carols of Christmas.
 * A setting by David Fanshawe, on the 1994 recording of African Sanctus.
 * One track of the album No Boundaries, by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (2006)
 * Track 12 of the album Whiskey Tango Ghosts, by Tanya Donelly (2004)
 * The phrase is used by the Doctor - season 4, episode 6 of Doctor Who, "The Poison Sky" - when speaking in code to Donna Noble who is trapped on the TARDIS by the Sontarans. (Original airdate: 3 May 2008)
 * Sister Steven, a character in the comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane repeatedly uses the phrase when her patience is being tried.
 * The phrase is repeated in the song "Old City (Instrumental)" on the album Instrumentals by the Shanghai Restoration Project (2008).
 * The title of a track in the Max Richter score for the HBO show The Leftovers.
 * The title of a composition by Motoi Sakuraba in Tales of Destiny 2 and featured throughout the series.
 * A song performed by an unnamed family in season 3, episode 11 of The Handmaid's Tale, "Liars".
 * Referenced in the second half of the song "She Was Naked" (1970) by Supersister