Re: Poetic translation (was: ULT)
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 30, 1999, 17:19 |
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On Sun, 30 May 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> Hmm. There is a melody (not a full setting) in my head associated
> with those words; I wonder whose it is?
>
> sta bat ma ter do lo ro sa
> C D E D E G F E
> iux ta cru cem la cri mo sa
> E D C B A A A G
> dum pen de bat fi li us
> D C D E D C C
That's the Gregorian chant melody in the book that I copied the text
from (though it starts on F there; I'm more comfortable with C too,
being a contralto). Probably the original melody (if there is one at
all). I can't recall off the top of my head whether most later
composers retained the melody and arranged it, or made something of
their own.
Irina
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