Angelus ad Virginem - The King's Singers - Christmas

Angelus ad Virginem (or its English title, Gabriel, From Heven King Was To The Maide Sende) was a popular medieval carol, whose text is a poetic version of the Hail Mary and the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary. Probably Franciscan in origin, it was brought to Britain by French friars in the 13th century. It is said to have originally consisted of 27 stanzas, with each following stanza beginning with the consecutive letter of the alphabet.

Surviving manuscripts may be found in a c. 1361 Dublin Troper (a music book for use at Mass) and a 13th or 14th century vellum Sequentiale that may have been connected with the Church of Addle, Yorkshire. It lyric also appears in the works of John Audelay (perhaps a priest, he definitely spent the last years of his life at Haughmond Abbey, where he wrote for the monks), in a group of four Marian poems.

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[ortcutt]

This is mentioned in Chaucer's Miller's Tale

"On which he made a-nyghtes melodie

So swetely that all the chambre rong;

And Angelus ad virginem he song;

And after that he song the Kynges Noote."

[marigroszek]

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[FRAGIORGIO1]

"Tu porta caeli facta" You are made the gate of heaven". I heard this first in the 1950s on an old BBC 78 on the history of music. Marvelous historical and spiritual song. Thanks for sharing.

[ThatsaCryinShame]

@ortcutt chaucer <3

[holaryhilary]

are there any more from this 2003 Cd on here ?

[phphphphph03]

yes, it is wonderful

[Octavin2]

wonderful