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  • Love this song, pretty much the easiest bass line to sing out of our choir's repertoire.

  • BRAVO!!

  • Reminds me of "Omen", great song!

  • This vill Be my Athem of when i vrule the vorld

  • nice!!!! songs beatiful

  • Did this song for chorus. It turned out pretty good.

  • The best i've ever heard. I imagine...never mind what, you will fought i am brainless.

  • this could be stock music its so generic. Comparison to Beethovens 9th is more than a little flattering.

  • If anyone knows 'O Fortuna' from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana here Jenkins uses a similar style to create such marvellous tension. Some may thing the music simple and naive - but remember that the 'Ode to Joy' from Beethoven's 9th (renowned along with the Bach B minor mass as probably the greatest choral work ever) uses just 6 notes. The sheer genius of Jenkins is his ability to create this wonderful sound despite its naivety. It makes me proud to be Welsh myself.

  • pop music arranged for chorus and orchestra...oh dear :-(

  • OOps...The last line is: Hosanna in the Highest

    Sorry

  • Translation: Holy, Holy,Holy lord God of Hosts

    Heaven and Earth are full of your Glory

    Glory be to God on High

  • @eunalsn You can find the translation on Wikipedia under 'Sanctus' (but YouTube will not let me put a link here)

  • The ability to create such a disturbed and restless feeling in that introduction is a testament to the genius of this music.

  • Can anybody translate this into English for me?

  • reminds me of one winged angel

  • We are learning this song in Concert Chorale, I cant WAIT to perform it!!! :D

  • This will be the anthem of my empire over the world. Everyone will kneel before me or...

  • @Aalvafaust

    Spit on your corpse and laugh?

  • @BritonAgainstIslam KNEEL LOOL

    

  • @Aalvafaust

    . . .

  • @Aalvafaust i will kneel before you master!

  • @wizard101magic2 Good. That the Force be with you. :)

  • @Aalvafaust yay!

  • @Aalvafaust

    Sad that there are no Film like Music timings :D

    otherwise i'd love to be able to play this while I'm walking into a room to make a dramatic effect, and like you said, make everyone kneel :D

  • @Tagnikzur1 It's really a great music.

  • how could anyone not like this...its just fantastic...gets you right in the guts:)brilliant piece of work!!

  • It reminds me of Harry Potter choirs.

  • Has anybody seen the ad in youtube of AXE with just the part of the Die Irie, is so funny, is the one of the billion women running.

  • Did this music appear in the movie 1492? Im so almost sure. Vangelis did the whole soundtrack but this music reminds me of a Christopher Colombus movie. If is not that one it has to be the one of the 80's.

  • Reminds me of the music in "The Omen"

  • @AndycKV Have you ever analyzed a piece by Mozart? His composition techniques are amazing! The harmonic acrobaties he performs in his music are incredible . I can of course agree that not all his music is amazing, I  mean I don't really care for his first symphony.

  • What I get from this piece is the actual futility of conflict and the inevitability of sorrow and pain on a global level. I understand that the basic concept evolves from French marching songs in the 15th century, which goes to show that we will never learn from our mistakes. A very stirring piece of work.

  • I think it's great music. Mozart may have good music, but it feels just boring compared to this.

    To all those concerned: How can you discuss about religion on this video? Religion is not that important, it's just a construct to make people think everything is controlled by a supernatural being. I'm sorry to inform you, that this is an old model of the world's functionality. Anybody, who wants to believe in any religion is free to do so, but don't press others to think the same way. Thank you.

  • @hanzkehrli are you kidding me? Mozart is amazing. This  is nice but it's like the pop of classical music.

  • @arykk You're right with the comparison to pop music. Also, he stealed a lot from other composers. Nevertheless, I prefer listening to the armed man, despite the fact, that Mozart is seen as a legend in classical music. But it seems all so flat and without emotion, not to mention without meaning. passé

    It's no affront.

  • @hanzkehrli Mozart flat and without emotion? Did we listen to the same composer :) Need to get a good video to show you Mozart have so much emotion.

  • @a7fsoad2 Music is something we have involuntary emotional responses to - we either like a piece, or not. Whether to some it's 'a pathetic excuse for classical music' is irrelevant. If we find it beautiful, then it is. I don't think it's possible for music to be overrated - that's usually what people say when they happen to not like something that a lot of other people do, usually to make themselves look superior ;)

  • Beautiful music indeed. I would have thought it was fairly obvious that the music is juxtapositioned next to the images of war purposely, to highlight the futility of war, and to question the existence and/or morality of a God who can allow these things to happen. In which case, the words are very relevant, and they're used in a morbidly sarcastic way against the images: 'Glorious? In the face of such attrocities? Are you kidding?' sort of thing!

  • @vindaloo1977 I think you're reading into it way too much. I think the music alongside those pictures of war is just so bloody pointless, especially with the words from the Sanctus. I don't mind Karl Jenkins but I think his music is so overrated and people trying to read into it and say it's 'juxtaposing this and that' is such a load of rubbish. His music may be diverse in it's influences and have moments of magic but in the most part it's just a pathetic excuse for classical music.

  • I think I'm getting close to finding the heavy classical music that will totally and utterly crush me.

  • @sartanko Heard the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky? You ain't heard nothing mate! Try a bit of Shostakovich too, final movement of the 5th Symphony maybe.

  • @sartanko try mahler symphony no. 5, that's INTENSE and 9

  • Inappropriate music. The words are words of praise, not war. Loathe it. Ah well. Opinions are worthless, I suppose. Rossini also didn't think it necessary to match words to music.

  • why are people arguing about god in the comments? this is a beautiful piece that is about the mourning of war, karl jenkins...what a ledge!

  • This sounds like the music from FF8

  • i came.

  • The images are stupids....

  • This combination of Hitler's and mussolini's scenes with the Sachred song that We catholics use to Adore the three times Holy, is Blasfemy.

  • Makes me want to listen to One Winged Angel...

    Karl Jenkins. Is. Awesome.

  • ALLE MUSIK IST EIGENTLICH INNERE MUSIK UND MUSS WIEDER ZU INNERER MUSIK WERDEN. (Gerhard Hauptmann)

    Wir sollten uns alle für den FRIEDEN erheben, ... aufstehen für die Wahrheit, GEGEN Gewalt, damit das endlich AUFHÖRT, das Blutvergießen, wir sind Menschen und keine Monster!

    PAX!

  • Muito bonito !

    Nosso coral da Unicamp cantará esta música em breve.

    w w*w _zipernaboca,com

  • there is one fundermental falisy with all that is said regarding a "higher being" that is to be our guardian means that "they" should at least look out for the lowly ones that inhabit this world,and not rely on a fallible "christian society".You dont have to be christian to be good,nor good to be a god.

  • It seems that it would be even more fitting to have shown scenes

    of Churchhill and "bomber" Harris plotting to kill Women and Children

    in Germany with bombing raids.

    To the victors goes the revisionist History ......

  • god created humans to be naturaly selfish. it is how we have managed to survive. this good and evil stuf is bullocks

  • @urbanescimo No, its the GOD stuff thats bollocks

  • @shabba1966 , No, it's more like the @shabba1966 stuff that is bollocks, but be not burdened, God does believe in you...

  • @urbanescimo nope. read Genesis 3 and you'll find out why are people selfish. they werent created selfish.

  • amazing. THIS MAN IS GENIOUS GENIOUS!

  • One of the most outstanding music of Karl Jenkins

    beautiful instrumental and choral vocal work.

  • ..how great things we are possible to do!!!

    with,- and in feelings!!

    no religion from mankind, feel free in your hart!!

  • me encanta esto!!!! xD me siento como un dios!!! jaja xD me siento con poder, con dominio sobre todos xP

  • Awh zelfs die kleine jongen moet eraan geloven vrezelijk!

    Maar jeemig wat een fenomeenaal nummer

  • Super Gesang. Ich habe Gänzehaut bei zuhören bekommen.

  • very thought invoking. off the topic but this would be good on zombies.

  • It's not fair to blame God for Adoph Hitler. If you want to blame someone, blame Darwin's followers and philosopher's who twisted evolution's survival of the fittess and the corrupt social philosophy that God is dead, so be as evil as you want, since you are the real master of the world. Or blame the weakness on the people around Hitler for not being able to stand up to him and say enough is enough killing is wrong. Or maybe, just blame Hilter's actions on Hitler himself. Why blame God?

  • @LoneMonk1 Because god is the reason of all... read the Bible...

  • @LoneMonk1 God created good and evil. I think that's evident.

  • @kipstrange So choose good and avoid evil is too hard? How stupid are we?

  • @kipstrange I'd say that God only created good things and the evil things that do happen, happen because humans have perverted what God created to be good.

  • @coolface01 everything exists as part of a pair; right and wrong, man and woman, good and evil, left and right, you get the idea. One things can not exist without the other.

  • @SCCatmull not true. of course they can exist without each other. if their was no such thing as evil for example its true we wouldnt think of good in the same way, it would become the normality, but that does not mean it wouldnt exist

  • @coolface01

    Or, more than likely - we evolved to do whatever the hell we please. Which occasionally involves ridiculous tribal behavior. Why bring a mythical supposed omnipotent deity into the equation?

  • @MrNickToone because you can't ignore God

  • @LoneMonk1 When everyone says that God created everything, that he is powerful, omniscient etc. etc. then why wouldn't we blame it on him? If people don't want others to blame God for these things then why don't just abandon their god-fearing fundamentalism and get a grip?

  • Chilling videos. Reminds one...

    Thank you Karl Jenkins for this wonderful piece...najinka

  • I really don't like the holiness of God being mixed with Adolph Hitler. This music sounds evil to me.

  • @LoneMonk1

    Yeah, it sounds like the definitve pain

  • M A R A V I L H O S A ! ! ! !

  • This is a very powerful video ,it brings a tear to my eye for sure.

  • My choir is doing The Armed Man this semester. Our concert is Monday.

  • Who is that a picture of at 3:40 ish?

    Some king?

  • @nofatlip Yasser Arafat

  • Wonderful song and amazingly sung.

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  • Makes me feel strong.

    Makes me feel weak.

    Makes me feel benevolent.

    Makes me feel vengeful.

    Makes me feel.....

  • Oh those harmonies......happy sigh.

  • Awesome performance of this piece, I like it!

    Impressive how they managed to get the display on the screen in time with the music as well.

  • I'm sorry but this..... BELONGS in a game. Most likely an opening or ending into/outro scene. It would just be... amazing and... epic. I love the sound of this, definitely like the march beat as well. It's an amazing piece, and this is the reason I have great respect for all of the conductors and "Choir Gweebs" or "Band Geeks" as some like to call them :/ To me they're amazing people... hell I was even in choir too, but after me and a couple other guys left it went to poo

  • I love Karl Jenkins music but only discovered this one this morning, never heard it before. and its very evocative, Translate the Latin for me please Kevin!!

  • makes me wanna increase my learnings in latin!

  • A Mass is always a hymn of peace and love. Not war. The images of war are an idiot and intentional perversion of this principle. I'm sick of this Western culture that is ashamed of its Christian roots and which identifies the war and violence. It is absurd and offensive to show that Hitler and the Nazis were atheists ASSUMED associating Nazism mass. Mass glorifies Jesus Christ our Lord, Love and Peace is men who make war among themselves. Not God.

  • @1863X

    You are such a pillock.

  • @privateer2368 pillock to you!!!!

  • @privateer2368 puts it in your ass and crie santus

  • @privateer2368 fuck yourself. I don´t need to be censored just because you don't agree my opinions.

  • @1863X Let me give you the context of this piece. This is part of a work called The Armed Man, which is an anti war mass (haz the latin text with some other mov written as well). It's split into 2 parts. The 1st glorifies war (this section) which leads to the climax - the piece 'Charge!' after that movement, it shows the true horrors of war (as you have said) reaching the final climax which is 'Better is Peace.' If you only came across this video, I suggest watch/listening to the entire work.

  • @Joshlama Totall agree with you. You have to see the whole thing to get the entire meaning and why not watching the whole work, it is great. It is a master piece of Karl Jenkins.

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  • i was singing along all the way through!

  • I bought this album after hearing the track 'Benedictus'. It doesn't matter how many times I listen it moves me to tears.... So powerfully does it tell the story of war!

  • Prachtige uitvoering ..groots wie wil hier niet bij zijn ? Wat zullen ze straks moeten beknibbelen als er gekort gaat worden op cultuur ....Geen groots werk meer in de concertzalen.

  • This sounds like something from Battle Royale for some reason XD

  • Neo-Orff, or just plain Orff-ful.

  • Listened to the whole thing at the LLangollen Eisteddfod.. Amazing

  • Karl Jenkins is a very talented artist, as represented by his works. How some people interpret the context of the images displayed in the above video is just that...their interpretation. Art is, after all, subjective. And just for the record, if Israel deserves to have a nation in the Middle East, then America should give their lands back to the Native Americans. They were there first. I mean, seriously, the Holocaust didn't happen in Palestine. It happened in Europe. Move Israel to Germany.

  • on what purpose those images were put? saddam was a bad man and us invaded ıraq for bringing democracy?israel has a right to take the country from its own dwellers and to resist against this cruelty only makes u one of those bad men..hypcrisies of the west is making me sick..

  • @esma966 I think I speak for everyone here when I say "Huh?"

  • @CinnAlla ..when and where did u say huh?im not used to this youtube comment thing..i didnt  even remember that i wrote a comment here till i saw ur post in my mail box..

  • I am upset by this scamm attempt , behind thje music , in those mixed up images = Hitler , Mussolini , Molotov( I think) and ....and Saddam Hussein !!!!!! Why , please explain the dirty link ? The only nuke bomb launched on mankind , the huge scamm of 11 sept ,30 Y of Viet Nam slaughter , 72 years of death camps in Russia , Gaza assassination=those are the continued WWII crimes ! Saddam was just assassinated by the same killers ! Please , don't put mass murders history upside down !!!!!

  • @GEOFFROYX this song is based of peace from war! it may sound a bit evil but it is actually based of that sooo...

  • die beelden op de achtergrond,geven me kippevel

  • actually Paul McCartney wrote this- its from one of his classical albums probably Ecce Cor Meum or Standing Stone. Karl just wrote the notation and conducts for him.

  • I never knew Dr Phil was a conductor too, lol he can do everything.

  • @Interioroutbreak69 I thought he looked more like Captain Kangaroo!!

  • @Interioroutbreak69 Karl Jenkins looks nothing like Dr. Phil. Jackass.

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  • I love this song. I first heard it on a school music residential in February. I played 'Cello in it and i LOVED it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • we singing The Armed Man in a School Concert at the RNCM 2moz

  • A prayerful and powerful song to praise God during the mass.

  • Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth!

    Sacred Lord God of the (Celestial) Host!

    Pleni sunt Caeli et Terra Gloria Tua!

    The Heavens and the Earth is filled with Thine Glory!

    Hosanna in excelsis!

    "Praise God" in in the highest!

  • @inferidamus

    Thanks so much for posting the words !! I have been looking all over the net for the lyrics and couldnt find them !! Do you have the vocal score for this one ?

  • @inferidamus Thanks for posting the meaning of the words. I heard this today on the radio and was immediately like what was that??? It's very powerful sounding.

  • lindissima orquestra ...imagens fortes , tudo isto que se relata e a infeliz realidade do homem na terra face a ditadores , ganancia de poder, interesses e injusticas...

    zilma

  • good composition!

  • Wow, I can't help but to feel as though parts of this song belong in a tim burton film...

  • Gah! I like how one of the percussionists is playing a marching snare with that bass drum mallet, that sounds so freakin' cool!

  • Could I point out that the reason this melody has war scenes in its backdrop is because it is part of The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. Hence the marching beat in the background. This requiem is a work mourning the part that war has taken in our lives.

  • @OphidiaSnaketongue Just a little correction, it isn't a Requiem, just an typical Catholic Mass arranged in a way that only Karl Jenkins could do. Completely agreed with the rest though!

  • @OphidiaSnaketongue thank you for pointing that out. im so tired of people not doing any of their research and just saying things that make no sense.

  • what's with the fascists?

    the song is to praise God.

  • @jonvint

    perhaps that is the point?

    Questioning the whole notion of religion when these fascist regimes

    continue to dominate over and destroy the true moral core of society.

    Maybe, maybe not...it's all up to interpretation.

  • Being an atheist with a natural world view I have the luxury of listing to this song for what it is, a beautiful collection of notes played in a particular order. I would like to point out religion is the catalyst to the majority of wars depicted in the images shown. Without these pathetic ghost stories we could all listen to the song for what it is. Wars would still happen, but for the right reasons like power and territory, which obey the savage laws of selection.

  • @marrabooboo ahh shut up u gay wo care bou ur religious beliefs? people would kill people over a penguin bar

  • I think it's more about the fact that people use such things about victory and war correlating it with religion, praising god and what not, looking into some hymns there is the context where some hymns are geared towards warfare at an ambiguous level. Also the fact that at the time praising what is seen as honorable and then looking back seeing that it actually wasn't so honorable under other contexts. Or sumthing of that nature.

  • à garder dans nos mémoires==>MEMORIES

  • Only by appreciating the power and enormity of evil and war can we appreciate the enormity of the love and forgiveness of God which gives us hope to try time and time again to overcome tyranny and evil. I don't think the images are inappropriate at all. The struggle continues every day and it is only by glorifying God whilst these things are happening that we can hold onto the good.

  • This is the best song

  • @ES183 - Right with you there, 183. The images with this song are so mismatched that it's... disturbing. Makes me wonder if this is a statement against war, or a statement against God... or did someone just not really THINK when putting this performance together? That's hard for me to conceive, since all the musicians I know are in a state of total, complete awareness of what they play and perform - music and lyrics.

  • @SweepFreq  Eh that depends on the performer tho :P

  • The first time I heard this song I felt sorry for anyone playing or singing the bass note. Just stuck playing the root for D minor for a good chunk of the song.

    But I really like this video, its really powerful and is almost radiating with irony. The choir is singing that heaven and earth are full of gods glory and the images depict otherwise, like we are tainting creation. No matter what you believe, the violence and utter disregard for human life that we are capable of needs to be addressed.

  • sensacional!!

  • I did this with a ton of independent schools in my area. So good. :D Such fun to sing. And the alto part for this is fabulous.

  • just saw the armed man in griffin, GA

    gotta say, it was good!

    this song was amazing

  • This would only mean that war wont do any good to people.

  • Just for the record, the Armed Man is a PROTEST against war...

  • This is like an anti-religious mass, giving a God a bad name, pairing text meant to hail His name with war images. hm.

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  • was his first initial pause an impression of the dramatic gopher?

  • i like the melody against the harmonic progression during that "gloria, gloria" (is that what they are saying?...)

  • Chilling. Which is what Jenkins intended. It's a statement about nations that go to war claiming that god is on their side. It makes much more sense in the context of the whole performance.

  • make a video and put this on youtube!

  • can somebody put up the lyrics,

    i'm trying to sing along......

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  • Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.

  • Questa musica mi incute timore per la magnificenza di cui è fatta. Molto bella, veramente molto bella.

  • I'm not really convinced that the music appropriately fits the text. As a whole, this sounds more like a Dies Irae than a Sanctus, in my opinion.

  • I agree.

  • Maybe it's musical irony, though.

  • is this performance available on DVD or CD?

  • This is Karl Jenkins from the soft machine!

  • Do you have the recording of Hymn Before Action?! Right at the end?!

  • It's supposed to be a cry for peace. Jenkins's whole album the Armed Man is a cry for peace, or rather a protest against war.

  • look at the kids at 3:47..who do you think there God is?!

  • Seems to be a lot off conflict between the people who are writing their comments in response to the video images.Doesn't conflict emerge between parties when they initially don't agree with each other?

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  • The images would be appropriate if they didnt show the Hitler picture when they pronounce the word Deus (DeUs means GOD).

  • lol

  • if tens of thousand people march before puting there life's in your hands..you can be easlly caled a god by them

  • yeah lol

  • difnitivamente esta musica deberia de estar en algo mas solemne!, pero podriamos interpretarlo asi, la Santidad de Dios aplastando la iniquidad!!!!