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Occasional ruminations on books, art, films, music ...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Gregorian Chant: Four Antiphons of the Virgin Mary
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The last four melodies in Rutter's Eleven Gregorian Chants are Four Antiphons of the Virgin Mary, compositions from between the eleven...
Romanesque Art: Apse of St Pere d'Urgell
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Apse of St Pere, Seu d'Urgell. MNAC, Barcelona. Image: Wikimedia Commons. This is the first monumental fresco to confront the...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Gregorian Chant: Victimae Paschalis laudes
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Eleventh-century chant. Sequence sung on Easter Sunday. Attributed by some to Notker the Stammerer. Rutter, Eleven Gregorian Chants , ...
Monday, 23 July 2012
St Vicenç, Cardona
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This church is in the ‘First Romanesque’ style. The First Romanesque is a style of building of roughly 950-1050, the first century of Romane...
Gregorian Chant: Vexilla Regis, Pange Lingua, Adoro te devote
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More Gregorian chants, following the selection in Rutter's Eleven Gregorian Chants. Vexilla Regis Text (and possible melody) by Vena...
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Gregorian Chants: Hodie Christus Natus Est, Kyrie de Angelis, Veni Creator Spiritus
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I have been enjoying geeting to know Eleven Gregorian Chants , edited (in modern notation) by John Rutter. Here are some notes and links to ...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Reading the Romanesque
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In answer to a request, here are some suggestions for reading on Romanesque Art, conventionally dated to c.1000 to c.1200 with all sorts of ...
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