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Kyrie: Orbis Factor by Ensemble Organum

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Uploaded by on May 13, 2008

As the title tells, this is a song by Ensemble Organum. I couldn't find it online anywhere, so I ended up buying the cd from a European site. Here it is for your enjoyment. I love the droning, it has to be one of my favorite songs. Definately the most unique.

update: 12/02/08 the album is ...
Marcel Perez - Ensemble Organum
Graduel d'Alienor de Bretagne
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  • no politics here, please. just beauty for God.

  • This shows what music is supposed to sound like & be for.

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  • As for "Gregorian", I'm under the (not too terribly informed) impression that Latin and Greek chant were a lot more similar than many are aware - there's evidence to suggest Latin Chant was originally much more melismatic . My personal theory is that what we know as Gregorian (very little melisms) came about with increasing popularity of classical art and choral music (which is not melismatic) in Western Europe. Sorry for the tangent. My humble opinion.

  • @PaxFrankis I would still consider this monophonic...the drone is relatively static and doesn't do much beside sound the base note (the practice, if even used at the time, could have originated to help keep the cantor in tune with the mode). In other words, the composition itself is monophonic, interpreted with a drone in this case.

  • Actually, it's not gregorian (even if it's in latin) but polyphonic (by listening to the background choir) melting latin and byzantine ways. So was written le graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne (end of 13th century). Crusades were just over and there was a full meting pot between western and eastern Europe. Beautiful melting pot indeed... They stopped sing it that way in the 16th century.

  • @vidaripollen: its gregorian choral....it'S the way it sounds...neither eastern, nor western, northern or southern...thats it!

  • Apaisant, surtout comparé au vacarme de la vie quotidienne

  • I like the arabic and throaty sounds.MMMMMMMMMMM!

  • 10E!

  • The "droning" is called an ISON - very much used in Byzantine Chant.

  • @Paxtoranious Of course that is a version of the "Kyrie Orbis Factor" in used in The Church for many many centuries.

  • And you did a good job with the pics btw.

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