I love this but i really don't like how they hold the two quarter notes at the end of "christus est natus" so long. I know there's a fermata but i just think it ruins the flow of the song.
The fermata, to my knowledge in this time marked the end of a "Choralzeile". So it is not meant as "long note", but more a mark a new line in a choral.
Themostamazinguy but this is clearly marked in its original source of Piæ Cantiones (1582) there is a clear pause in the middle and it ends with a longa which was, depending on the prolation, worth either two or three breves. In this instance it was worth two breves
This is not the correct melody for the verse. Whereas Piæ Cantiones does not have a melody for the verses, there is a Bohemian manuscript from the same period that has a melody for the verses and it is nothing like this
Fortunately, there is a long tradition of using this melody for this internationally known and beloved piece of music and we are not dependent on a manuscript with a melody that may have been known only in Bohemia.
I love this rendering. Piae Cantiones had some wonderful music
Wonderful. Finally Latin pronounced correctly.
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I love this but i really don't like how they hold the two quarter notes at the end of "christus est natus" so long. I know there's a fermata but i just think it ruins the flow of the song.
+Themostamazinguy I love this too. It always reminds me of Alan Partridge. :)
+Themostamazinguy Also they are not together on many points
The fermata, to my knowledge in this time marked the end of a "Choralzeile". So it is not meant as "long note", but more a mark a new line in a choral.
Themostamazinguy but this is clearly marked in its original source of Piæ Cantiones (1582) there is a clear pause in the middle and it ends with a longa which was, depending on the prolation, worth either two or three breves. In this instance it was worth two breves
I knew Steeleye Spans version of this...can't really say which is best!
Too much space/rest between the musical phrases. Strange indeed.
Dwayne Hicks but this is how it is marked on the original manuscript. There is a very clearly marked pause on the 'natus'
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This is not the correct melody for the verse. Whereas Piæ Cantiones does not have a melody for the verses, there is a Bohemian manuscript from the same period that has a melody for the verses and it is nothing like this
Fortunately, there is a long tradition of using this melody for this internationally known and beloved piece of music and we are not dependent on a manuscript with a melody that may have been known only in Bohemia.