Pérotin's "Beata Viscera"

[apostatdurock]

I don't care of the goyophobics , it's a beautiful song with beautiful lyrics and fuck Vatican II and racist talmud. Long live to the real Catholicism !

[Aeon135]

I wish the top comment didn't inform everyone that it was anti semetic, sort of ruins it.

[tarkovskychild]

Amazing voice.

[goodcatholicboy]

My Jesus, how can anyone not he so overwhelmed that they could say some of the things that are read here. I'm sure that I will receive some responses. It makes me very sad.

[angellinegirl]

beautiful, sounds like an angel :)

[Ophelide]

I've found it about this : toddtarantino(dot)com/hum/beat­aviscera : )

[LOBOtranslucere]

Lindo!

[gamgagirl]

what recording is this??

[kokoshoden]

this was the amazingst music i ever enjoied .... nothing else^^

[pdobbing]

How would you feel about a beautiful setting of a few unintelligible lines from Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'?

[andrewMLhero]

@pdobbing Gb2Israel, stupid self-righteous Yid.

[pdobbing]

For me the beauty is tarnished by the blatant anti-Semitism ('cor gerens conscium

delicet funebris' etc etc) that runs through the whole poem. Pity since the setting is truly gorgeous. 

[mightyafrowhitey]

@pdobbing since I can neither read or write latin I can't say it bothers me any...

[Anakay]

@pdobbing Don't be an anachronist. This music, with its antisemitism, is just a fruit of its time... You can't judge people of other eras with the ideas of your own age. If u were born in the Middle Ages or in Nazi Germany, you would probably be antisemite too.

[SROCeallaigh]

@Anakay I don't care how 'antisemitic' this is, because it's beautiful music...I do however think that we can and should judge past cultures and attitudes...yes, some, like the Indian civilizations and tribes Europeans came across, were just less advanced so I don't think you can really judge of condemn their attitude, as they didn't know any better...but in areas were paganism and rationality triumphed for centuries, the bigoted Christian worldview is repulsive and should be attacked

[jwz965]

@pdobbing So tell us how the entire poem is anti-semitic, smart boy. 

[Neosdedo]

Stupenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[Neosdedo]

Stupenda!!

[IJustTrySomeThing]

OMG! I love this music ♥

[mwheape]

obviously in convents it would have been sung by a woman or by women.

[TheAngelDark17]

Meravigliosa!!!

[sonicide1]

Re: castrati - they used young boys too!

[rogermoore27]

would this song have orinally been performed by a male or a female?

[Jayne1286]

Probably a castrato

[rogermoore27]

Thanks for that. I just read what a castrato was. My gosh!

[ftumschk]

They didn't have castrati in late 12th/early 13th Century France, when Perotin would have written this. The church castrato was "invented" in Italy, some 200 years later.

If Perotin's "Beata Viscera" wasn't sung by an (intact!) male falsettist, it would have been sung by an adult male with a non-falsetto voice, like a tenor.

[saprissa18]

ohh nice much like the contemporary hymn and latin rhyme.