CRUS OCELLE MEUM VELLE, 11th century love song from Northern Italy ∾ Murmur Mori (medieval music)

A melody and profane lyrics from 1000 years ago, contained in a single manuscript from Northern Italy composed between Lodi and Novara. The musical notation above the Middle Latin text of manuscript Vat.Lat.3251 is semidiastematic and the pitch of the note F is indicated. Ours is the first complete recording of this song.
Under green foliage filtering the light of the morning sun, or perhaps within the walls of a cold and calm 11th century scriptorium, an anonymous hand wrote the carmen amatorium “Crus ocelle meum velle”, a love lyric that is almost hermetic in its language rich in allusions and esotericism: a sweet succession of melancholic and marvelous images blooming heavily in their innocent desperation, those who listen to the verses are invited to love before losing youth's bloom and rotting, and the betrayed faith is compared to a brutally cut oak which, even if replanted, is no longer going to generate new leaves.
Lyrics and Music: BAV, Vat.Lat.3251, second half of the 11th century, Lodi/Novara (Northern Italy)
Musical reconstruction: Silvia Kuro
Thanks to Professors Davide Daolmi and Adriano Cassano for revising the translation from the Latin lyrics.
English translated lyrics:
Tear away my stump, love, but with a secret heart not of stone, somewhere distant and later evident.
Sweet is love whose clamor resonates through the ether, whose song is painful for me and shakes me from the inside (entering my bowels).
Spare me, I beg you, for it is decent if you do not want to ruin me! Undressing I undress, joking I joke, in the way you used to play.
As long as your youth is demanded, come to me, for when it is rotten it will wear out and lose its value.
While you asked for jackets and shirts to be given to you, and the sandals you wanted did not lack buckles.
Oh, avoid such a serious crime, I told you and I tell you again, I am not the same one to whom you promised mutual trust.
The felled oak and the faith betrayed are almost alike, because when cut down and replanted they do not produce new leaves.
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Video: Silvia Kuro
Recorded at the Oratorio di Sant'Antonio, Craveggia (VB)
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Our studies on Middle latin poetry and the music of the 11th century, aimed at the creation of a new album, named "CARMINA", which will be published in 2025. We are reconstructing a repertoire composed of the earliest profane Latin songs of the Italian and European territory.
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[@drauglurdarkambient]

what excited shivers it sends down my spine to fall under your spell

[@Eros-88]

Sempre molto bravi/e e le canzoni risultano ancor più suggestive grazie ai luoghi in cui le eseguite, che trovo molto belli ma pure molto stimolanti dal punto di vista storico/culturale.

[@MurmurMori]

Grazie Eros 🌹

[@edrachel6251]

Beautiful song. Beautiful video. I’m looking forward to “Carmina”!

[@MurmurMori]

Thank you! 🌹

[@fairytale70]

Meraviglia! Non vedo l'ora di ascoltarla per intero. ♥PS: Siete anche bellissimi!

[@MurmurMori]

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[@MsLeenite]

Thank you, that was so plaintive and lovely. I enjoyed the walk in the forest. 🌲🌳🌲🌳

[@MurmurMori]

Grazie 🌹

[@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700]

Vocês sempre fazem as escolhas certas, ter só a flauta como instrumentação foi de muito bom gosto.

[@MurmurMori]

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[@tomaszdeptua9445]

Wspaniałe...kruchy czas uchwycony w roślinnej melodii....

[@MurmurMori]

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[@weronikazimnoch9424]

Love the style of the video!!🔥

[@MurmurMori]

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[@Amoybill]

Absolutely otherworldly. Thanks so much.

[@MurmurMori]

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[@grisi_guitar]

Beautiful performance. Thanks for sharing.

[@MurmurMori]

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[@gustavoabrao961]

Ansiosamente no aguardo :)

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[@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700]

Três brs nos comentários, isso me deixa feliz, murmur mori é bom de mais.

[@DEDE-os7qs]

Very lovely

[@MurmurMori]

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[@weltonrodrigotorresnascime9616]

Aguardando do Brasil!

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[@jeffcristina4667]

Thank you! Beautiful in every way.

[@MurmurMori]

Grazie🌹

[@comix5281]

Lovely! Thank you for sharing

[@MurmurMori]

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[@TheYakshie]

Lovely❤

[@MurmurMori]

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[@jessicamorgan3073]

That was beautiful :-)

[@MurmurMori]

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[@billguyan1913]

Terrific 🙂

[@MurmurMori]

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[@andrearodigari4840]

My people. I'm from Alta Valle Seriana. Oneta. My parish was founded in 1015.

[@MurmurMori]

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[@heinrichkemmler5695]

Grande divinité ! Francesca est tout simplement divinement, suprêmement magnifique !

[@folkpopolare1994]

Qui est Francesca ? Mirko et Silvia chantent ici, Alessandra joue de la flûte

[@MiguelRamos-kt8iq]

Mesmerizing!!

[@MurmurMori]

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[@lewisdivine536]

Absolutely beautiful 🔊🔊🔊 new sub here☕☕☕⚘⚘⚘

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[@CefinBeornMusic]

Wow. Very beautiful.

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[@user-nf9rq1sh9i]

Muitoooooo bonito! Gosto mto de canto gregoriano!

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[@pagan_wanderer8861]

Although I'm not complaining at all, Is astonishing to think about your musical change compared with O. 🖤

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[@786fabrizioantonini]

SieteStupore☀️🌹

[@MurmurMori]

Grazie 🌹

[@manfredoiallonardi4020]

Questa musica è patrimonio culturale europeo perché solo i nostri antenati avrebbero potuto comporre così profonde poesie della Natura! È la spiritualità che sentiamo dentro noi e che ci ricollega ai nostri padri: gran parte degli europei moderni non è più degna del passato altrimenti rifiuterebbe con forza il meticciato genetico e culturale...

[@MurmurMori]

No, questa musica è frutto dell'incontro di diverse culture in secoli di storia europea. Greci, etruschi, bizantini, longobardi, africani, germani, franchi, goti, normanni, latini, arabi. Non è esistita in antichità una cultura unilaterale che ha portato a questo risultato nell'XI secolo, bensì un terreno di incontri che ha generato ciò che eravamo, ciò che siamo e ciò che saremo.

[@manfredoiallonardi4020]

​@@MurmurMoriNon concorderò mai sul fatto che in questa musica possano esserci eredità arabe e tantomeno africane, per il resto i popoli citati sono gli antenati a cui mi riferivo! Comunque, nonostante questa musica ci comunichi evidentemente sensazioni diverse, è per entrambi fonte di emozione...grazie per la risposta!

[@MurmurMori]

@@manfredoiallonardi4020 Agostino d'Ippona, amaziɣ del Nord Africa, attratto dall'Italia viaggiò e venne battezzato da Ambrogio a Milano. Agostino scrisse il "De Musica" a Milano e ne conclusa la stesura solo una volta tornato a Tagaste in Algeria. Questo è solo un esempio che include due personaggi celebri del IV secolo.

[@manfredoiallonardi4020]

@@MurmurMori Agostino probabilmente era oriundo, oppure greco, all' epoca il nordafrica romano era diverso da quello attuale! Le immagini che abbiamo, anche se successive lo mostrano con tratti indoeuropei...

[@aresaurelian]

I imagined a small family of people during the Ice age, a normal wandering day. It was a beautiful match to this song.

[@MurmurMori]

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[@Neogarcilaso]

Ok.., it is just an exercise of imagination... I mean: latin does not exist then, but it was a pretty nice exercise 😄😄😄

[@blainhanlon1558]

Any chance I saw you (gentleman with sideburns) at the Bayeux tapestry today?

[@MurmurMori]

Unfortunately not! The Bayeux Tapestry is a true masterpiece. 🌹

[@dimazmeeed]

50 likes, but only 48 views. How it that possible? 😮

[@fairytale70]

62 views and 53 likes

[@annalapiuma]

KZbin is slower than me at the math

[@rodeovin]

Bravo guys! Very good execution of this beautiful song. I appreciate your effort to keep genuine music alive. You people are very important! Keep up the good work.

[@MurmurMori]

Grazie di cuore 🌹

[@waldwulfwulfila1293]

290 like 11:49 12.07.2024🍀

[@antw3114]

I love the music and performance however wonder about the symbolism in the video. Can you explain its meaning in relation to the song? Are you Satanists or Occultists?

[@MurmurMori]

Thank you. We are neither of the two things, we are not interested in certain topics. One of the messages of the lyric is the transience of life and feelings; and so the skulls and trees destroyed by human stupidity represent death, while the newborn fox cub jumping on the cut oak, the new green of the forest and the continuous flow of water represent life. 🌹

[@antw3114]

@@MurmurMori thanks for the clarification

[@rodeovin]

Can you play "a que por muy gran fremosura n. 384" ? It is my favorite medieval song!

[@MurmurMori]

It's a very beautiful cantigas, without a doubt, but we don't study the Spanish repertoire. Plus there are already so many well-made versions of it. 🌹