Gothic chant - École de Notre-Dame: Deus misertus Hominis

[thetrollmotherishere]

I am moved to tears each time I immerse myself in this heavenly chorus. Let us remember that these are the voices of those whose hearts & minds are turned toward Heaven, and whose souls speak to us about a profound truth.

[SpartanMan80]

Deus misertus hominis, Lavit reatum criminis Eve per partum virginis; O quam dulce remedium, Ut vitium Purgetur per contrarium; Fit electis compendium, Ne tedium Sit currenti per stadium, Si differatur bravium. Mundus vergens in defectum, Casum probans per effectum Se fallacem exuit, Nam remota fraudis arce Nos delere vi vel arte, Quod iam patet, astruit, Et dum his se applicat, Quod explicit, explicat.

Anyone have the sheet music?

[vivalaliberty]

Thanks for the upload. this is amazing.

[MrShroomtits]

this is being added to my lsd playlist

[aznmessenjah]

english translation?

[d60944]

God, pitying man,

Washed man charged with Eves

Guilt, through a virgins son;

O what a sweet remedy!

That sin

Should be purged by a contradiction;

May salvation come to the elect,

Lest tedium

Should overwhelm the runner of the course,

If a reward is to be disbursed.

[d60944]

The world inclining to its fall,

Proving its fall by its results,

Is now putting off its deceitful self,

For having set aside the citadel of deceit,

It is engineering our destruction by force or art,

As is now apparent,

And while to these ends it is applying itself,

It is unfolding what is the end.

[d60944]

The Old Law passes away,

The rite of the ancients has gone,

A virgin in child-birth gives

A new son to us,

A gift salvation-bearing,

A king and high-priest,

Who making the rough places plain,

Strengthens the bond of peace,

The purgator of our sins.

[standimitri]

sends shivers up my spine..so dark and creepy

[DasRoemertum]

The music composed by the Masters of Notre Dame is some of the most perplexing, valuable music I know. Thank you for providing it.

[Eupalinos1970]

This is not gregorian chant, but GOTHIC polyphony !!!

[Callixtinus]

It is gothic polyphony of the Organum era, of the School of Notre-Dame. The composers of the said School used for their composition gregorian style chants which they superimposed upon one another to create polyphonic variations. Gregorian chant is monophonic in general but in this case it was used as a component of polyphonic melodies.

[epn10]

But this is a conductus - conducti did not utilize a gregorian chant as a tenor. New melodies were composed specifically for them (which makes sense, seeing as they were settings of non-liturgical, contemporary religious poetry).

[Callixtinus]

Very well, I am not extremely familiar with the School of Notre-Dame and generally with Organum so I may be entirely wrong. I am sorry if this was misleading. I have changed the description of this video and the related to "Gothic chant".

[epn10]

it's just a technicality, really, but thanks...your definition of organum is more or less correct, by the way. the chants were used as cantus firmi (sort of) - the drones heard in perotin's quadrupla, for example, are extended notes of the gregorian chant.

[epn10]

I think Mundus Vergens is an entirely separate 4-part conductus. For some reason, Marcel Peres chose to combine the two. Deus Misertus is strictly religious ("God, pitying man..."), whereas Mundus vergens describes a "world turning in revolt"...perhaps as a reference to a contemporary political event in France????

This version is certainly one of the most moving examples of this repertoire. It's also unorthodox, considering the unusually low range and frequent ornamentation.

[d60944]

The range is arbitrary. There was no sense of absolute pitch in this period. The ornaments are added by Peres's group And the rhythmic approach is - errr - idiosyncratic to say the least: though I love it. The critical edition of the pieces transcribes the piece in more conventional rhythmic-modes, not in the free-syllable-per-beat that Peres uses.

[VOD713]

@d60944 shut up geek

[Nietzschianbarn]

Knowledge of music: bad!

Music: good!

Knowledge of language: bad!

Raping of language: good!

You make a good case, VOD713.

[aaaarghgl]

why should he shut up? he has something appropriate to tell... you on the contrary...

[VOD713]

@aaaarghgl youuuuuuu shut up.....

[aaaarghgl]

@VOD713 you'd better listen to the music instead of being rude towards other people :-)

[aaaarghgl]

@VIOD713 or are you just being rude while listening to the music? :-)

[legrandchene]

. Deus misertus hominis, Lavit reatum criminis Eve per partum virginis; O quam dulce remedium, Ut vitium Purgetur per contrarium; Fit electis compendium, Ne tedium Sit currenti per stadium, Si differatur bravium.

[legrandchene]

Mundus vergens in defectum,

Casum probans per effectum

Se fallacem exuit,

Nam remota fraudis arce

Nos delere vi vel arte,

Quod iam patet, astruit,

Et dum his se applicat,

Quod explicit, explicat.

Et de plus, Marcel Pérès a la bonne idée d'opter pour la prononciation française du latin.