GAUDETE medieval Christmas Latin carol

arranged for 4 voices by Joan Yakkey and performed by 4 adolescents belonging to the Young Madrigalists group of the School of Music of Fiesole, Florence Italy. Joan Yakkey conducting

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Music

Tags:

• Gaudete
• Latin
• Christmas
• Carol
• arrangement
• adolescent
• singers

[ElenaRosa8]

Beautiful arrangement. Thank you.

[joyakkey]

@ElenaRosa8 Thank you for the compliment.

[MrERICTHEDOG]

It gets better every time I hear it. Just wonderful.

[joyakkey]

@MrERICTHEDOG Thank you so much! ! !

[captainstevealan]

Wonderful. Grazie.

[joyakkey]

@captainstevealan thanks so much, this was my arrangement, the melody is from a book I bought in my travels thru Germany

[ElenaRosa8]

I just found Downloads available on Amazon. Wonderful. I'll be selecting some.

Thanks!

[ElenaRosa8]

@joyakkey - Do you have CD's for sale? I've been to the School's website, looking.

[Madmacch]

@GCarty80

@GCarty80

It's not only about "g" or "c" it's about sound of entire carol ( when I hear "ey" at the end of "virgin" - it disgusts me a lot) . I've learnt latin for 5 years (at the university) and such pronauncation really annoys me. Let the latin be latin - not english-latin, spanish-latin, etc. And here is the splendid example of proper pronaunciation of "Gaudete" carol, exactly just as it should sound in LATIN:

youtube.com/watch?v=G_qC20zco1­A

[triphilon]

Bravo!

[GCarty80]

@Madmacch

In classical Latin "c" and "g" were always pronounced hard. It was roughly in the 4th century AD when these two consonants acquired their present dual nature, with "soft" sounds before e or i. The performances of which you speak are using Medieval pronunciation, in which "c" and "g" are pronounced the same as in modern Italian. In French and Spanish the Italian "ch" sound for soft "c" moved further forward to become "ts" and ultimately "s" (or "th" in European Spanish).