Happy feast of the Holy Transfriguration,
I am in love with "Sequence" chants. I would like to know if anyone can recommend to me some medieval facsimilies that have been adapted into modern notation or square notes so that I can sing from them and adapt them into the english language for parish church use. I have access to many university libraries and have seen something like them in one but havent had time go back and look closely. Some old gradual or sacramentaries perhaps we know of...?
Particular I am after the "Ave Mundi Spes Maria" ''In Honorem Beatae Mariae V.'' (12th c)
with complete verses.
"Most sequences were abolished from the Catholic service
the Council of Trent (1545-63), and only four were retained
laudes, at Easter; Veni Sancte Spiritus, on Whitsunday; Lauda
Aquinas, for the festival of Corpus Christi; and the Dies
Stabat Mater, was added in to the liturgy in 1727."
Also why in the world were they abolished, was it a reaction to protestants? they remind me of byzantine chant and could easily enrich the liturgies of today more easily than the propers of the mass I think as they are closer to hymns in nature and more catchy and eays to sing with.
Cheers
I am in love with "Sequence" chants. I would like to know if anyone can recommend to me some medieval facsimilies that have been adapted into modern notation or square notes so that I can sing from them and adapt them into the english language for parish church use. I have access to many university libraries and have seen something like them in one but havent had time go back and look closely. Some old gradual or sacramentaries perhaps we know of...?
Particular I am after the "Ave Mundi Spes Maria" ''In Honorem Beatae Mariae V.'' (12th c)
with complete verses.
"Most sequences were abolished from the Catholic service
the Council of Trent (1545-63), and only four were retained
laudes, at Easter; Veni Sancte Spiritus, on Whitsunday; Lauda
Aquinas, for the festival of Corpus Christi; and the Dies
Stabat Mater, was added in to the liturgy in 1727."
Also why in the world were they abolished, was it a reaction to protestants? they remind me of byzantine chant and could easily enrich the liturgies of today more easily than the propers of the mass I think as they are closer to hymns in nature and more catchy and eays to sing with.
Cheers