Looking at William Byrd's Sacerdotes Domini.
Latin:
Sacerdotes Domini incensum et panes offerunt Deo: et ideo sancti erunt Deo suo et non polluent nomen eius. Alleluia.
Translation:
Then did priests make offering of incense and loaves of finest wheat to God and therefore shall they be holy to their Lord and shall not defile his most holy name. Aleluia.
Idea .. . .
Sacerdotes would come after Mate Saule, which has this translation:
Translation:
Morning is rising like kneaded bread dough.
Mother’s footsteps clatter on the clay floor.
And loaves, covered with maple leaves,
Travel on the peel into the mouth of the oven.
Which sort of works with this idea of Sacerdotes:
Then did priests make offering of incense and loaves of finest wheat to God and therefore shall they be holy to their Lord and shall not defile his most holy name. Aleluia.
And the piece works in key as well as length and mood.
1 comment:
in regards to the Taverner "Alleluia" and Alleluia chant that you mentioned in the email...
i actually prefer the the Spiritus Domini chant and piece to these other options..
for textual purposes...
the three songs have the same style..but Spirtus gives you more to think about textually versus the Alleluia. We are ending Mate saying Alleluia and Regina Caeli is full of alleluias as well.
Spiritus has alleluia in the text as well, but that isn't the main textual focal point.If we start by chanting Alleluia, Ending Mate on Alleluia, singing Alleluia - the Taverner, then starting and ending with Alleluia in Regina Caeli...
i think that may be an Alleluia overkill..like really...ppl may start to think you have an obsession with the word, haha..esp after singing the Karaji (however you spell it) Alleluia from last
year lol.
Spiritus also has better melodic lines and flows better than Saecerdotes Domini, although it is similar at times...but then again it's Renaissance music, most of them sound similar . :)
I think that by doing the Spiritus domini chant led set we have it all...traditional with the chant and the Byrd arrangement...crazy/contemporary with Death, Regina, and Mate, refreshing and thought provoking
with Esti...and then Nunc encompasses it all and ties everything together, because it's all dissonant and rhythmic in the "quod parasti"/"sicut" sections, so beautiful and almost simplistic even though alot is going on in the chord vocally in the main theme of the song "Nunc dimittis servum.."/"gloria patri et filio" sections, and the closing "Amen, amen, amen" section at the end invokes the traditional Renaissance style, right before that big ending ...all the while, we have still incorporated the "alleluias" in the first half of the set, giving God praise and honor at the same time keeping that image of waiting and hoping moving along...to ultimately be at rest. I've been looking for a while now on another Spiritus or something that incorporates the text. Haven't really found anything...honestly, after listening to the Spiritus-Byrd piece, i love the song in the set..not necessarily the song itself..but the way it helps to transition the set, and move it along textually is quite amazing.
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