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Traditional Catholic Faith => The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers => Topic started by: Matthew on January 19, 2024, 02:04:45 PM
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Very ancient and traditional. Written in the 1500's.
Gaudete, gaudete!
Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!
Rejoice, rejoice!
Christ is born
Of the Virgin Mary –
Rejoice!
Tempus adest gratiae
Hoc quod optabamus,
Carmina laetitiae
Devote reddamus.
The time of grace has come—
What we have wished for;
Songs of joy
Let us give back faithfully.
Deus homo factus est
Natura mirante,
Mundus renovatus est
a Christo regnante.
God has become man,
With nature marvelling,
The world has been renewed
By the reigning Christ.
Ezechielis porta
Clausa pertransitur,
Unde lux est orta
Salus invenitur.
The closed gate of Ezekiel
Is passed through,
Whence the light is risen;
Salvation has been found.
Ergo nostra contio
Psallat iam in lustro;
Benedicat Domino:
Salus Regi nostro.
Therefore, let our assembly
Now sing in brightness
Let it bless the Lord:
Greetings to our King.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudete
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How much do I win? :laugh1:
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I was trying to think of a good clickbait title. I'm sure a few of us know this one. But before 2020, I had never heard it before. That is "in all my travels", and I'm very well-traveled when it comes to music.
So yeah -- even among those who think they know most Christmas songs, they very well might not know this one.
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How much do I win? :laugh1:
Do I get a cut of the winnings for knowing the hymn?
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So far we have two ex-seminarians who knew it, and one ex-seminarian (myself) highly into Chant, highly into music, who was in the Schola at the seminary, who just discovered it a couple years ago.
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I remember hearing this back in 2006 or so, at the SSPX chapel in Carmichael.
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:pray:
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It's a great carol. I've known a number of chapels that did a version along the lines of this:
https://youtu.be/190y_yUzbSM?si=G82qlwse_0V2I3QH&t=11
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Off direct topic, but more Christmas carols/hymns from about the same general time period as Gaudete, arranged for voice and/or historically accurate instruments. Album "Nowells Delight", by early music group Piffaro. Not sure how to share whole playlist, but here is first track and a few others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQWOzenhww&list=OLAK5uy_lKFi5rnsCH6u7LLYL8S5BWLzltS76Vzho
https://youtu.be/Y-Zzbn97d3U?si=AtuPWa3ORgHSIYYG
https://youtu.be/mt-cO21VqvM?si=54fkYl8f-ZlppSSn
https://youtu.be/BYk6oO0G_oE?si=yRrflPw2YnbBZcxY
https://youtu.be/0buyUVmTvnA?si=5nss4LOeHVdrVoie
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Sang the Gaudete hymn - albeit at a much higher tempo - at Christmas. Also long aware of boar's head hymn. :cowboy:
I ask for no reward but prayers. Bloomin' health going down the pipes again, and prithee the descent shall be arrested shortly.
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So far we have two ex-seminarians who knew it, and one ex-seminarian (myself) highly into Chant, highly into music, who was in the Schola at the seminary, who just discovered it a couple years ago.
I am familiar with it, but I didn't hear it in seminary, at least not that I can remember. I became family with it during my former employment for an FSSP church with a polyphonic choir. One of my favorites.
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Off direct topic, but more Christmas carols/hymns from about the same general time period as Gaudete, arranged for voice and/or historically accurate instruments. Album "Nowells Delight", by early music group Piffaro. Not sure how to share whole playlist, but here is first track and a few others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQWOzenhww&list=OLAK5uy_lKFi5rnsCH6u7LLYL8S5BWLzltS76Vzho
https://youtu.be/Y-Zzbn97d3U?si=AtuPWa3ORgHSIYYG
https://youtu.be/mt-cO21VqvM?si=54fkYl8f-ZlppSSn
https://youtu.be/BYk6oO0G_oE?si=yRrflPw2YnbBZcxY
https://youtu.be/0buyUVmTvnA?si=5nss4LOeHVdrVoie
To be sung when you bring the roasted pigs head to the table for the feast
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I was trying to think of a good clickbait title. I'm sure a few of us know this one. But before 2020, I had never heard it before. That is "in all my travels", and I'm very well-traveled when it comes to music.
So yeah -- even among those who think they know most Christmas songs, they very well might not know this one.
You won the bet with me, I never heard of it.
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I sang this song in Highschool Choir.
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It became popular, and much better known, here in the UK when the folk band 'Steeleye Span' released a 45 rpm single of it in 1972.
A later recording here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZhsjLJlwRg).