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« Reply #45 on: February 20, 2012, 04:51:44 PM » |
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'it's life, jim, but not as we know it...'
(with apologies to anyone too young, too smart or simply in the wrong country to have watched 'star treck')
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« Reply #46 on: February 20, 2012, 07:52:35 PM » |
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Whoever translated this is really bad at Latin.
That particular translation's intention was to capture the metre, rhyme and general meaning of the chant rather than to be a verbatim translation. If you want such a translation, look at the far right column here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae#Text |
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« Reply #47 on: November 04, 2012, 03:17:15 AM » |
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Caught this one on an odd Christmas album years ago. It's sort of like Agne Parthene for Norman sailors. Salva Nos Stella Maris / Save us, O Star of the Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6KTJpMLe1gIn it, the Theotokos is upgraded from "Queen of Heaven" to "Empress of Heaven". |
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« Reply #48 on: November 04, 2012, 06:55:07 PM » |
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And a barely disguised contempt for the created world.
"When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away! Like a bird from prison bars has flown, I'll fly away..." |
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« Reply #49 on: November 04, 2012, 07:58:39 PM » |
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Concerning the title of this thread, we sung a hymn written by Thomas Aquinas today.......we've also sung few from Bach.
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« Reply #50 on: November 04, 2012, 11:54:31 PM » |
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And Am I Born to Die?, a Charles Wesley hymn (here sung by Marc Almond for Current 93) And am I born to die? To lay this body down! And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown? A land of deepest shade, Unpierced by human thought; The dreary regions of the dead, Where all things are forgot! Soon as from earth I go, What will become of me? Eternal happiness or woe Must then my portion be! Waked by the trumpet sound, I from my grave shall rise; And see the Judge with glory crowned, And see the flaming skies!
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"A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect: the Man Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian." - William Blake
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« Reply #51 on: November 05, 2012, 01:36:26 PM » |
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Concerning the title of this thread, we sung a hymn written by Thomas Aquinas today. Panis Angelicus? |
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"Ἔπαγε, ἔπαγε, μὴ γὰρ ἴδοι με σιωπῶντα ἥλιος."-Polemon of LaodiceaAll ye self-proclaimed intellectuals, come and read Lucian in the Book Club!
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« Reply #53 on: November 06, 2012, 04:56:56 PM » |
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« Reply #54 on: November 09, 2012, 03:31:06 AM » |
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I'm sort of surprised it hasn't been mentioned already, but my favorite (finding the Latin is giving me only sheet music):
Come, O Creator Spirit blest,
And in our souls take up Thy rest;
Come, with Thy grace and heavenly aid,
To fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
Great Comforter, to Thee we cry;
O highest gift of God most high,
O Fount of life, O Fire of love,
And sweet anointing from above!
The sacred sevenfold grace is Thine,
Dread finger of the hand divine;
The promise of the Father Thou,
Who dost the tongue with power endow.
Kindle our senses from above,
And make our hearts o’erflow with love;
With patience firm, and virtue high,
The weakness of our flesh supply.
Far from us drive the foe we dread,
And grant us Thy true peace instead;
So shall we not, with Thee for guide,
Turn from the path of life aside.
O may Thy grace on us bestow
The Father and the Son to know,
And evermore to hold confessed
Thyself of each the Spirit blest.
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« Reply #55 on: November 09, 2012, 04:32:22 AM » |
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If all of the World converted to Orthodoxy I wonder what would happen all these hymns. It would be shame if the living tradition of singing hymns was lost due to lack of liturgical context.
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« Reply #56 on: November 09, 2012, 12:12:17 PM » |
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If all of the World converted to Orthodoxy I wonder what would happen all these hymns. It would be shame if the living tradition of singing hymns was lost due to lack of liturgical context.
It seems a lot of the Orthodox in Africa still sing hymns from the Protestant tradition. |
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« Reply #57 on: November 09, 2012, 12:49:03 PM » |
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If all of the World converted to Orthodoxy I wonder what would happen all these hymns. It would be shame if the living tradition of singing hymns was lost due to lack of liturgical context.
It seems a lot of the Orthodox in Africa still sing hymns from the Protestant tradition. During services or outside of them? |
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« Reply #58 on: November 09, 2012, 01:17:40 PM » |
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Western Orthodoxy still sings a lot of them.
To be nitpicky: Easterners have hymns that we sing too, they just don't rhyme (which I prefer, honestly).
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« Reply #59 on: November 09, 2012, 02:02:28 PM » |
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If all of the World converted to Orthodoxy I wonder what would happen all these hymns. It would be shame if the living tradition of singing hymns was lost due to lack of liturgical context.
It seems a lot of the Orthodox in Africa still sing hymns from the Protestant tradition. During services or outside of them? I believe I've seen videos of them being sung during communion. |
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"A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect: the Man Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian." - William Blake
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« Reply #60 on: November 09, 2012, 02:06:03 PM » |
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Western Orthodoxy still sings a lot of them.
To be nitpicky: Easterners have hymns that we sing too, they just don't rhyme (which I prefer, honestly).
A lot of Eastern Orthodox hymns were actually translated into meter-and-rhyme English by the Anglican John Mason Neale. I remember being at a Methodist service and flipping through the hymnal- there was at least one hymn by St. John Damascene, translated by Neale. |
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"A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect: the Man Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian." - William Blake
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« Reply #61 on: November 12, 2012, 01:02:39 PM » |
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