In praise of saint Columba, the sound of the medieval Celts - Choir of Gonville & CaIus College

Ensemble: Choir of Gonville & CaIus College
Album: In praise of saint Columba
, The sound world of the Celtic church
Video: Book of Kells, IX cent.
/ musicamedievale
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The great sixth-century Irish saint, Columba,
is perhaps best known today for his leading part in the spread of Christianity from Ireland to Scotland, where he founded the monastery at Iona. He was a scholar as well as a missionary, having studied at the major theological centre at Clonard Abbey, though no surviving texts can be ascribed to him with any certainty. His reputation in Scotland grew over the centuries, and the earliest surviving music that makes mention of him is found in the Inchcolm Antiphoner, a fourteenth-century manuscript now in Edinburgh University Library; this comes from Inchcolm Abbey, sometimes called the Iona of the East, situated in the Firth of Forth. But the influence of Irish monks like Columba extended not just to Scotland but also to mainland Europe, where monasteries were founded by them as far south as Switzerland and northern Italy.
In Praise of Saint Columba explores the sound-world both of Columba’s time and of the period of his far-reaching influence over subsequent centuries, most of which predates what we would recognise as modern musical notation on staff lines.
Within this broad period, the program focuses on three distinct imagined sound- worlds: seventh-century hymns from Iona, tenth-century chants from Irish foundations in Switzerland, and fourteenth-century antiphons from Inchcolm in honour of St. Columba. The performances explore these three areas in
experimental ways inspired by oral traditions and early music notation, and are the result of a collaboration between Barnaby Brown and the Choir of Gonville & Caius College which began in 2004 in Sardinia. Very little about the final manner of performance was anticipated in advance. The freedom of experience that this approach fostered was both testing and liberating for all concerned, and although the final result shave no claim to being anything other than imaginative speculations, based as much on intuition as on reason, an overriding aim was to counter the modern conception of plainsong as being ‘plain’: a single melodic line sung unornamented and unaccompanied by large groups in generous Gothic acoustics.
Instead, the project’s ethos was to respond
in a practical way to historical information, exploring styles of singing and accompaniment unfamiliar to us but perhaps more consistent with the evidence. This includes the persistent condemnation of piping within Christian
ritual by church leaders between the second and eighth centuries AD, and the physical context of ecclesiastical buildings, smaller
and less resonant than their later medieval counterparts. In this spirit of investigation,
this record present an array of possible approaches, while acknowledging that many performance questions are insoluble and that early medieval practice was more diverse than in later periods.
I wish you happy listening!
Mirko Virginio Volpe
MUSICA MEDIEVALE
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1 Os mutorum, lux cecorum - Office of St Columba
, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340
2 Loquebar de testimoniis tuis - Mode 5 Introit, Einsiedeln MS 121, c.965
3 River Erne horn duet - Improvisation by Malachy Frame & Simon O’Dwyer
4 Adiutor laborantium - Alphabetic hymn, text by St Columba(?) (d. 597) 13th c.
5 Sanctorum piissime Columba - Office of St Columba, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340
6 Lauda anima mea Dominum - Mode 8 Alleluia, Einsiedeln MS 121, c.965
7 Noli Pater - Prayer for protection, text attributed to a 7th-c. Iona author
8 Carne solutus pater Columba - Psalm 100, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340
9 Amen dico vobis - Mode 1, Einsiedeln MS 121, c.965
10 Liberasti nos Domine - Mode 7, St Gallen MS 359, c.924
11 Cantemus in omni die - Hymn, text by Cú Chuimne of Iona, c.700 melody from Santiago di Compostela, c.1280s
12 Altus prosator - Alphabetic hymn, text attributed to a 7th-c. Iona author
13 Volens Ihesus linire - Office of St Columba, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340
14 Laudate Dominum - Psalm 150, music by Barnaby Brown after the Gaelic psalm-singing of Murdina and Effie MacDonald, Isle of Harris
15 The Desperate Battle of the Birds
Geoffrey Webber: director
Barnaby Brown: triplepipes & lyre
Simon O’Dwyer: medieval Irish horn & bodhrán
Malachy Frame: medieval Irish horn
lIam Crangle: bell & crotals
Triplepipes by Luciano Montisci & Barnaby Brown after Sardinian tradition. Horns by Simon O’Dwyer after an 8th-c. original
found in the River Erne. Ireland
Lyre after 7th-c. fragments from Sutton Hoo England.
Bodhrán by Charlie Byrne after Irish tradition.
Crotal by Simon O’Dwyer after a Bronze Age original found near Birr in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
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[@twenty-eightrock]

I'm an Irish-Catholic who a few years ago re-converted back to my faith. Have been using this during my prayer and meditation. Thanks, and may God bless you.

[@robblack8578]

God bless you my fellow Catholic

[@SwoleSlim]

The faith of your ancestors is Orthodoxy, not Latin papism.

[@jamescarroll9022]

Tragic it is that so many Irish manuscripts, art, relics and other artefacts were destroyed since the time Christianity came to Ireland in the 4/5th century. The Vikings, Normans and English each took part, the monastery near my house was burned down five times in 6 years in the 16th century. Many good people died protecting manuscripts. Thank god we have what we have now, such as the Book of Kells ☘️

[@joshua_wherley]

Yes, it is tragic that so many treasures have been lost throughout the years. But, at least we can be thankful for and value what we still have. I was reading "Exploring the Book of Kells" by George Otto Simms last night. I found it at a local bookstore, used for less than $10.00! On the inside cover, someone noted that they had purchased the book in Dublin back in the late 1990s. So now I have a book about the Book of Kells directly from Ireland. It is a welcome part of my small but growing personal library. Many great saints like Colmcille gave us an inheritance to be admired.

[@jamescarroll9022]

@@joshua_wherley So much of our historical written records are preserved in these manuscripts too. Our mythology too, recorded in various books. The Ulster Cycle, the Fenian cycle and the Cycles of the Kings were all written down in the manuscripts. Eternal credit to the authors, all we know is because of them

[@dianastevenson131]

I find it amazing that here in England there's still an assumption that Protestant and Church of England Christianity is always good, inoffensive and harmless - but they destroyed so much. Many parts of the English countryside have a desolate feeling for me - I'm aware of the violence of the Reformation which destroyed culture, church art, shrines and places of pilgrimage as well as music. Of course there were atrocities on both sides but the Protestants destroyed so much traditional and peasant culture with it. And then they tried to destroy Ireland too.

[@joshua_wherley]

@@dianastevenson131 yes, and much of the Protestant Reformation throughout Europe tried to destroy Roman Catholic monasticism. The monasteries, of course, housed many of the cultural treasures and literature throughout the years.

[@annebellis1153]

@@dianastevenson131 The Puritans weren't Anglicans. The Church of England wasn't responsible for the iconoclasm or English civil war, they tried to find a middle path but failed. (I was raised catholic, by the way, but this is historically ignorant.) And there was even more hyper-Calvinism in Scotland than England. The Gaelic-speaking, catholic highlanders were persecuted by lowland Scots, although it's fashionable to blame England for this now. Also a lot of English rural peasant culture was destroyed by industrialisation and the enclosure acts. The English poor and working class tend to be erased from history and lumped in collectively with an elite when they suffered very similar things.

[@davidbowie5023]

I am Catholic, Irish, and Celtic. 🇮🇪❤️

[@zuarbrincar769]

✝️✝️✝️❤️❤️

[@Tataka72]

viva IRA

[@fieldagentryan]

you are christian irisn and celtic.. the barnd of catholicism was only put on the irish after Daniel O'Connell was slain in Paris - he didnt want his heart go to those cannibals .

[@slimduster5468]

Celtic is a culture, not a race. Bless you

[@fieldagentryan]

@@xplicitfishin incorrect , .. no offence .. st finian of cloanrd would have used a language called sean ghaeilge which in time became latin .. plus lyon was the seat of the pope for a whaile and the original ley lines all lead back to skellig miichael .. the filthy british army ones like mcgabrey prison being on bealtine for example shows the evil cemes from without .. ROMAN i bonded slavery at brith , and chrsitening as a child , whereas jeus was baptied at the age of 30 by thew previous paostle john . the baptists were the original christians pagan .. evil the ppale became with its mining chattel raids . ben bulneb was one of the mJOR salt imnes in europe for exampls and red hand day is the day the orange jews cut your hand off if their assayaince of their presumed free abour was stolenn .. rule of law without role of law is no law at all . amen ra always wins but the aton ray crowd bloom every so oftern .. hapr of david pf the psalms is in eastern orhtodox ..zion was invented in 1896 net and yahooo claims 3000 eyars , but thats inbred toby ears liunatics for ya .

[@ChristophorosSedinum]

I am a Western Catholic, pre 1054. I feel a great connection to Celtic Christianity. Greetings from Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Poland.

[@BrianRobertson007]

Almost A KnightTemplar

[@SwoleSlim]

Are you Orthodox?

[@Blondie42]

So gracious of the monks/nuns to allow the person from the future to come to their monastery and record them. 🕍

[@koutetsushimobe]

Fun fact: the organistrum, a two-man predecessor of the hurdy-gurdy, was commonly used in medieval churches before the organ took its place. If you don't know, the organistrum and hurdy-gurdy are stringed instruments which produce sound with a hand crank that rubs the strings with a wheel when turned. If you've seen *The Polar Express,* the ghost on the train can be seen playing a hurdy-gurdy.

[@WretchedRedoran]

Based. The hurdy-gurdy is my favourite instrument.

[@daisyjeffs]

Greetings from your 100th like

[@C4TheBassman]

For those who like metal music and hurdy-gurdy check a band called "Eluveitie", one of my favs in the melodic death metal genre, infused will celtic music but done well. I recommend a lot the "Feuertanz Festival 2013" live performance.

[@Poodle_Gun]

They're a beautiful instrument

[@francislecuak2252]

0:00:00 Os mutorum, lux cecorum - Office of St Columba , Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340 0:03:07 Loquebar de testimoniis tuis - Mode 5 Introit, Einsiedeln MS 121, c.965 0:06:16 River Erne horn duet - Improvisation by Malachy Frame & Simon O’Dwyer 0:10:47 Adiutor laborantium - Alphabetic hymn, text by St Columba(?) (d. 597) melody from Lausanne, 13th c. 0:14:14 Sanctorum piissime Columba - Office of St Columba, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340 0:17:32 Lauda anima mea Dominum - Mode 8 Alleluia, Einsiedeln MS 121, c.965 0:19:16 Noli Pater - Prayer for protection, text attributed to a 7th-c. Iona author 0:24:11 Carne solutus pater Columba - Psalm 100, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340 0:28:53 Amen dico vobis - Mode 1, Einsiedeln MS 121, c.965 0:32:15 Liberasti nos Domine - Mode 7, St Gallen MS 359, c.924 0:35:39 Cantemus in omni die - Hymn, text by Cú Chuimne of Iona, c.700 melody from Santiago di Compostela, c.1280s 0:39:17 Altus prosator - Alphabetic hymn, text attributed to a 7th-c. Iona author 1:04:23 Volens Ihesus linire - Office of St Columba, Inchcolm Antiphoner, c.1340 1:08:13 Laudate Dominum - Psalm 150, music by Barnaby Brown after the Gaelic psalm-singing of Murdina and Effie MacDonald, Isle of Harris 1:11:43 The Desperate Battle of the Birds

[@julieneugene5584]

Thank you !

[@wilcom6459]

God bless you dude.

[@wellhelodeer2680]

God bless you!

[@marlyncheng102]

Thank you

[@jeffrey5966]

Thank you :) I think this should be pinned!

[@kovalthenarehate]

Damn, humanity created so much beautiful art, it's a shame we cant possibly experience all of it.

[@kebman]

A German nobleman was lamenting the invention of the printing press in a similar fashion. Upon hearing about this glorious invention, the story goes that he said, “With so many books coming out at that harrowing pace, how on earth will I get enough time to read them all?”

[@exnihilo8933]

No one can experience everything. And even if we could, that would defeat the purpose. A focused in-depth interest is much better than a taste-everything-approach. Better to experience a few things deeply, than a lot shallowly. Our ancestors knew this.

[@Apriluser]

I expect to experience it in Heaven. There will be so much to experience there in addition to being in God’s presence. And we have eternity. Plenty of “time” to experience everything deeply!

[@exnihilo8933]

@@Apriluser Well, perhaps if you put it that way. In this life, however, there's only so much we can do -- better not spread ourselves too thin.

[@user-ex1hp8ph3p]

@@Apriluser Are you sure? Maybe you will be in Hell?!.😉😎🤣

[@Iranshahrinfo]

I am from Iran. How beautiful this music is. Your channel is wonderful.

[@MusicaMedievale]

Grazie! 🌹

[@johnalden5821]

This is a high compliment coming from somebody from Iran -- such a beautiful and intricate heritage of music in your country.

[@MusicaMedievale]

@@johnalden5821 really important musical traditions for medieval music! 🌹

[@Iranshahrinfo]

​@@MusicaMedievale Thank you So much

[@kaththal7625]

Iranshar, Greetings from Germany! ❤ 👋 Please, google: music of cathedrales and forgotten temples

[@MegaCirse]

Perfect songs to read the subjective forms of the clouds and to follow with a tender eye the grooves of the stems of the trees; appreciate the complex writing of the nested branches, taste the colors of the decomposition of light into water droplets in a garden, and strongly feel the wet soil of ancestral forest to perceive the traces of animals from deep past 🍍🌴

[@gary.arthur]

Heck yes.

[@user-my7qd4qb2q]

읽는 것이 아닌 보고 눈이 따라가며 귀가 본 노래요 색을 보고 강하게 만지며 음식을 기대하시어 비슷하게 그리시길 원하셨군요.

[@user-my7qd4qb2q]

입이 움직이면 그림이 연기가 됍니다. 입을 단단히 선을 단단히...

[@MegaCirse]

@@user-my7qd4qb2q 물론 불 없이는 연기가 나지 않습니다 ;-)

[@user-my7qd4qb2q]

@@MegaCirse 그걸 부르는 것이 공기와 마찰이되 "입을 겸함은 어떠할까요?" 그리고 공기를 들이켜 "웃으며" 일을 해보아요.

[@g2ands1]

God bless the people of Ireland.

[@hortonharry3492]

Beautiful capture of the Celtic soul. A distant world over a thousand years ago, long forgotten to the many of today's times, yet brought back to life in such gorgeous music.And thus brought back to life from the misty airs and lands of these European domains. It rouses my curiosity of what the people were like at such times, their toil and struggles and lives lived so intimately with the otherworldly realms of human spiritual existence. It reminds me of a wise Eckankar statement and truth: "You don't have a soul. But rather, you are soul." And in our soul we are free!.

[@zamestitel35]

Though, i don't understand rants and complaints about pseudomedieval music (Let's conclude that "medieval" fantasy genre already have separated from realistic medieval setting in 19th century romanticism masterpieces and with each passing year was drifting in his own direction. So I think that it is strange to blame fantasy music and bardcore (which is more of meme than actual genre) for using "magic" computer sounds and breaking all kinds of traditional medieval music canons. Because it's like accusing folk rock for using electric guitars.). Still this music is good and I'm glad to find a channel with actual medieval music.

[@maldito_sudaka]

It's just bad in the sense that when you're trying to get a taste of what songs they made and listened to were like (or a approximation of that), these medieval inspired songs get in the way because of the sheer amount there is.

[@brendenjohnston7946]

This is real music from the medieval period💀

[@karenpidcock9872]

Such beautifully sung/played music to my ears…I’m Anglican, half Swedish/N. Europe N.A. descendent, appreciatively soulful Celt! Many thanks for this beautiful musical gift!

[@derekpoole7922]

What a wonderful affirmation of the art and sound of Celtic Christianity. Thank you to all those who made it possible. Greetings from Ireland.

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

your surname must be topographical origin, where mine is patronomic, harris, son or descended of herice de beaugency, not the welsh harry

[@derekpoole7922]

@@I_Wish_I_Was_Home Yes my ancestors were early (1550s) English settlers in Ireland. The movement of large numbers of English and Scottish people in the 16th and 17th century was known as the "Plantations". The rest is modern Irish history...

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

@@derekpoole7922 well I hope your family is better

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

@KDAMDK I didnt call you derek

[@laurencebollengier1585]

❤️

[@LearnRunes]

The beauty of this music is timeless.

[@iliya3110]

Proud to be a Catholic Celt, the Faith from which this music was written for the praise of Christ the King. Viva Cristo Rey! St. Columba, ora pro nobis!

[@carolusramusservusdei9611]

Deus Vult frater! From a Mexican-American Catholic.

[@David-lu4gq]

Irish Catholic here!

[@iliya3110]

@JP Off-Grid Depends what you mean. If by "Orthodox" you mean, the "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church", then yes. But, they most certainly believed St Peter was the Chief of the Apostles and in an ancient Irish monk's poem he referred to the Pope as the "ruler of nations" and St. Patrick urged the Celts to do all things in common with the Romans for the sake of unity. True, there are similarities between the spirituality of early Christian Celts and the Byzantines/Coptics (a spirituality of the desert fathers/monasticism brought from the East to the West via St. John Cassian and others), but the Celts were really their own expression of the One Faith, different than both Latins and Greeks prior to 667AD, after which they adopted the Latin Rite. Also, technically Christians did not call themselves "Orthodox" in the same way the Easterners began to, with any consistency, until after the Schism between Latins and Greeks. It's a popular assertion that the Celts were "once Orthodox". It just depends what one means by that. Byzantine/Syriac/Coptic? No. Similar spirituality? Yes. Do we share the same saints before the Schism? Yes. Were the Celts in union with Rome, unlike contemporary Orthodox? Yes. Any other meaning applied to them is encroaching on a kind of revisionist history though and I think you'd have a really hard time proving they rejected papal primacy like the East of today.

[@iliya3110]

@JP Off-Grid Primacy of authority. Not merely primacy of honor. Properly understood, papal infallibility isn't a deal breaker for the Orthodox. Rejecting that supernatural charism would be akin to a Catholic rejecting Orthodoxy merely because some monks on Athos received the gift of contemplation of the Uncreated Taboric Light but his monks don't. That wouldn't make any sense. The charism of infallibility is a grace. It doesn't emanate from the person of the Pope. The person of the Pope is fallible and a sinful man like anyone else. The charism is a gift he can use from God, proper to his office as Servant of the Servants of God, and he is safeguarded by the Holy Ghost when he does so. That's all it is. I get how it's a stumbling block if not properly understood, but in truth it is a tremendous gift from our Lord that He has entrusted to His Holy Church, for the benefit of all the faithful. Infallibility is implicit in the early Church when the Fathers speak of the Apostolic See (Old Rome) never having fallen into teaching doctrinal error, unlike the rest of the Sees, who had fallen into Arianism and the like.

[@iliya3110]

@JP Off-Grid I'm about half Scottish too! :-)

[@Gnomeof9]

I tried fleeing. I tried finding a new god and master..yet i found myself more empty and lost... now again i find myself in tears returning to my roots... turbulent are the ways of life

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

What a wonderful sort of time travel ancient music is. Thanks for this and all the others.

[@adamniglus8402]

Hi there, Musica Medievale. I just wanted to thank you. This music helped me plenty during Lent. I would prey the rosary every day of the Lent and these celtic masterpieces were my background, helping me concentrate. Today I have received the CD in the mail. Now "In Praise of Saint Columbia" is a part of my music collection.

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@pierceholston6639]

This just makes me want to paint my face blue and scream, FREEDOM!!!

[@RodM.Peters]

This is supposed to be the Dark Ages but this music soars above that of supposedly more enlightened epochs. Something not right with the official story, right?

[@dianalauraduranmorenoluria6206]

This is a video with high quality art. I really loved it, now I can truly imagine how it was like to be in a celtic church

[@ronaran8420]

If you have the opportunity to go to the library of Trinity College in Dublin, you will be able to see one the Irish national treasures, the Book of Kells, written and enluminated by monks, of which all this "high quality art", as you rightly refer it to, comes from and is on display along with many interesting explanations. ✋🙂

[@qboxer]

Such a wonderfully different interpretation of Christian music. I really enjoyed this, thanks.

[@MusicaMedievale]

🌹

[@mirjanamilosavljevic4261]

Some chants remind me of the Christian Orthodox chants, the bells,chorus….the music in the background is different Paintings / icons are different, But the singing,if I don’t know the difference I would be confused by the Greek chants, they. are not singing in the old Slavic language

[@artdanks4846]

@@mirjanamilosavljevic4261 There was much influence from the Eastern Church (Orthodoxy) on the Celtic Christianity. That's why to this day there is a lot of similarity. It was through studying the ancient Celtic Church that eventually led me to the Orthodox Church, where I converted 18 years ago.

[@sandrobirnbaumer5444]

6:35 this one is very beautiful

[@aresaurelian]

Gets annoying. But I think the initial interpretation is correct as these Carnyx trumpets/horns can be played in unison. But I think as a musical piece, these must be combined with transitional instruments not to get to the nerves. As a contrast, the musical group of Heilung utilize these types of horns in the correct way. Look up "Heilung krigsgaldr" for a beautiful interpretation of war like tunes, which is pretty accurate on the monotone unison utilization of these horns/trumpets. They induce a primordial trance.

[@sandrobirnbaumer5444]

@@aresaurelian thanks a lot for the suggestion!

[@alesjamsek2324]

So amazing and rare writing hertige!

[@robertboyle2573]

Could not agree more.

[@itsaguinness]

Carnyx is one of the oldest world instruments

[@Spartacus005]

6:14 (River Erne horn duet) always makes me feel something. Not sure what, but something. Unsettling when I'm relaxed, and relaxed when I'm unsettled.

[@TheGamerFrom]

I agree. Do you know of any similar music?

[@Spartacus005]

@@TheGamerFrom Unfortunately I do not. Do you?

[@TheGamerFrom]

@@Spartacus005 No, unfortunately not!

[@Spartacus005]

@@TheGamerFrom ah shoot! If I find anything like it, I'll link it here if I remember!

[@TheGamerFrom]

@@Spartacus005 Great, I will do too!:)

[@justinreid2422]

Sounds just like Gregorian Chant with the pipes providing the carrier tone💯🙏

[@MusicaMedievale]

🌻

[@sooohum]

But better than Gregorian. It's more varied, there's more harmony and it's richer by far. Loving it.

[@Wilantonjakov]

@@sooohum In no way better than Gregorian chant. On a completely different playing field. There is an incredible beauty to the strict order of Gregorian chant.

[@franguemes]

My family orginally comes from Cantabria in the north of Spain where Celtic tribes lived. We are already inhabitants of Latam (Argentina) for the last 350 years. But the roots of where one comes from never fades. Great music.

[@michaelseybold1743]

My ancestors came from Cantabria aswell! They went to Belgium and mixed in there instead of Argentina tho.

[@art.mercadonor5030]

aguante boca

[@redpanda1765]

Argentina is full of Indoeuropean people, with their roots well attached to them

[@art.mercadonor5030]

@@redpanda1765 are you an argentinian?

[@redpanda1765]

@@art.mercadonor5030 yup. My ancestors are from Hungary, Spain and Italy

[@Michail_Chatziasemidis]

0:00 1. Ōs mūtōrum, lūx caecōrum 03:07 2. Loquēbar dē testimoniīs tuīs 06:16 3. River Erne horn duet 10:46 4. Adiutor laborantium 14:14 5. Sanctōrum piissime Columba 17:33 6. Laudā, anima mea, Dominum 19:16 7. Nōlī Pater 24:11 8. Carne solūtus, pater, Columba 28:54 9. Āmēn dīcō vōbis 32:16 10. Līberastī nōs, Domine 35:40 11. Cantēmus in omnī diē 39:19 12. Altus prōsator 1:04:24 13. Volēns Ihēsūs linīre 1:08:14 14. Laudāte Dominum 1:11:44 15. The Desperate Battle of Birds

[@agreen254]

Gratiās tibi agō. Nōn adhūc comprehendere possum cantorēs nisi verba eōrum videō. Tamen iī mirābilēs audītū sunt.

[@Michail_Chatziasemidis]

@@agreen254 Cantūs vērē excellentēs! Mihi quōque difficile vidēbātur versūs animadvertere, studiō autem potuī. Ipsum etiam dē tē opīnor.

[@uhuihiuihiuh3042]

Your name looks like math :D

[@NouveauPothecary]

This is the most beautiful and humbling work of art altogether! Thank you for putting this together.

[@robertoserra5663]

Il primo brano è suonato con le mitiche " launeddas " Sarde ......la loro armonia è inconfondibile e assolutamente caratteristica .....strumento a fiato continuo ....tre canne : tumbu ,maincosa e maincosedda ....unite per creare balli ....accompagnamento di canti di gioia ..di dolore ..religione e......... praticamente tutto .....una terra .....un suono .....la nostra amata Sardegna

[@tomatin6437]

wonderful interpretation! greetings from würzburg, germany, which is very deeply connected to another irish monk, st kilian. he and his confreres missionized this region in 680. til today he is the patron saint of franconia.

[@ellenmaccarrone4936]

Oh! This is news to me, Elena. My paternal grandmother was a Killian. All of my DNA comes from Great Britain and Sweden (Mom's side), despite my paternal grandfather having had German grandparents. In Scotland, the Killians are members of the McNab clan. Thanks for sharing the news that there was a St. Kilian (or is it "Killian" also?), and that he was in Germany very early. I'm eager to look him up.

[@AGirlWithoutAName]

Christianity singing by my ancestors 😭🙏🏻❤️ this is pure. Thank you

[@mrbenn2209]

Wouldn't it be really ironic if your ancestors were Pagans.

[@AGirlWithoutAName]

@@mrbenn2209 Israelites > then pagans > then Christians my friend 👐🏻

[@LeeGee]

@@AGirlWithoutAName Christians call 'Israelites' pagans though.

[@AGirlWithoutAName]

@@LeeGee they are original Christians (Europeans) their ethic ancestors 🙂

[@thiefonthecross7552]

@@AGirlWithoutAName AMEN!!

[@Prismatic_Truth]

Celtic Christianity was very Byzantine/Orthodox in its spirituality, & the pre-schism Byzantine influence is very apparent in this beautiful Celtic Christian music. How fascinating, thank you for uploading!

[@spmoran4703]

Well maybe. But it also kept much from the pagan Celtic faith . It being nature based.

[@BaronvonMoorland]

I feel this in my roots 🌼

[@MusicaMedievale]

🌹

[@Kolchak_Enjoyer]

Same.

[@artdanks4846]

This is an amazingly good video. I am a convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church (17 years ago), and actually became Orthodox as the result of my studies in the ancient Celtic Christian church (particularly St. Columba and others). I am also a musician, an very much appreciate hearing such a scholarly rendition of what ancient Celtic Christian music must have sounded like!

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@dimitri2132]

Tell me more, what led you to orthodoxy exactly? Is that what they practiced early on in Ireland? Im genuinely curious, as an Orthodox Christian myself god bless you

[@nuzzi6620]

@@dimitri2132 Sure, the British Isles were fully Orthodox for nearly a thousand years before the Normans invaded England (with the Pope’s blessing), suppressing Orthodoxy and bringing a more Roman-style Christianity to those lands.

[@dimitri2132]

@@nuzzi6620 i didnt even know, thanks man

[@mirjanamilosavljevic4261]

I don’t know that,but my first impression was Christian Orthodoxy ……the chants….

[@a26nts]

That "Altus prosator" is one of the most beautiful hymn tunes I've ever heard.

[@jane---489]

*_1:8:14_**_ - _**_1:11:39_**_ Absolutely divine ..._*

[@arnoroorda3201]

Its Beautifull! ❤ Tapadh leat! 🇨🇮

[@fran4eska443]

Благодарю от всего сердца за то, что делитесь такой Красотой. Она отвлекает от страшной реальности. Вдохновения Вам +++ Из Крыма...

[@spmoran4703]

I am praying that this horrible war will be over soon. Until then, many prayers .

[@fran4eska443]

@@spmoran4703 thank you very much for your prayers 💙. In this situation, this is the most important thing. God bless you +

[@klinsmeier]

The earth was very silent then.

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@italoastorga3167]

The olds good times...

[@eclipseslayer98]

"Mocking bird intensifies" They're annoyingly loud little creeps.

[@nabaneetsharma451]

Not really. They liked to kill each other in wars and battles.

[@christianriddler5063]

@@nabaneetsharma451 What a sad and ignorant view of the past. Your indoctrination is showing.

[@prototropo]

The visuals are the closest I’ve ever seen the Book of Kells. Incredible.

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@bundleaxe1922]

Medieval Christian music is so beautiful. It makes you so at peace, almost like the voice of God is comforting your mind.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Beautiful. Just beautiful. As Voltaire said when asked if preferred Heaven or Hell, "Heaven, for the music."

[@c.a.savage5689]

To be fair (or at least totally honest) he also said : "Hell, for the conversation."

[@pierredessein5568]

Being a metalhead, I'd have to say hell for the music lol

[@alexanderthegrey1914]

Wow, I've been searching for something like this for a while. Good traditional celtic sound. Amazing! God bless.

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@christianriddler5063]

I am a North Germanian and alongside the Celts, the Greeks, the Latins and the Slavs we are the original population of Europe. We are all brothers and sisters and we have done great things. It's beautiful how we are all drawn to each other's past and celebrate each other's beauty and glory. We are united by our faith in God and by the blood that runs through our veins. You are all my brothers and my sisters of mother Europe and Father God.

[@drakonidesthevigilant5155]

Well done! 😄 ✝️ 💖 🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@user-my7qd4qb2q]

당신의 그 이모티콘의 집합또한 필사본입니다.

[@odonnchada9994]

Hail Glorious Saints And Martyrs Of Ireland.✝️👑🕊🇻🇦🇮🇪☘🕯🙏

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This profound music will quench and moisturize your parched soul and evoke comfortable feelings

[@gerardmurphy8797]

Wonderful sacred music. ✝️

[@maggiemarchant4204]

Someone: *funny joke* Me: 33:13

[@farrahwakefield4024]

dude i laughed way harder and way longer than i should have at this lmao

[@anthrosapien3784]

I almost choked on my strawberries man tf is wrong with you?

[@chphoto8695]

You win the internet

[@BaronvonMoorland]

Yes!

[@shimmy1984]

best comment

[@marleneorein9484]

There are more than 8 ads in this video! I hate YT for doing this with the best videos.

[@lalaholland5929]

Book of Kells

[@susanmoran2154]

Lovely music and good pictures of the book of Kells. The music is of the church and the book of Kells is a decorated New Testament.

[@AndrewKozley]

I can hear all the noise of the surrounding working fellow men. Talking, hammer of the smith, grain grinding on millstones, animals feeding, laughs ...

[@Luna-qg8og]

This is... so beautiful and nostalgic... I don't know, but I feel happy but at the same time so sad. I only want to be in the 14th century.

[@alamaim1563591263131]

A memória dos celtas e sua genética sagrada JAMAIS serão apagadas...

[@ethanredacted515]

How gentle and pure this beckoning calls I feel the awaiting beyond and these songs speak of it so softly

[@floraline7153]

The instrument playing in the first instrumental section, 9:00ish, and its player are creating a sound so universal. I've been a world music listener for decades and some sounds are just innate; we wish to surround ourselves with a sort of drone, something that makes us breathe deeply, let go, and let God.

[@juanjoseterrescampos5564]

It's amazing to see someone else realize that ,I have thought that too . Maybe we humans try to bring something deeper and more unconscious that what we could think , so we manifest it like that

[@kimlersue]

My DNA is 97% pure gale..meaning my family is entirely gale and clearly celts. I have heard this music before..many women pass it on..even in here in the USA. Being Catholic also makes it completely familiar..from the latin Mass and singing very similar chants as these from the age of 8. Thank you for sharing it.

[@Wilantonjakov]

God Bless you for attending the Mass of the Ages. There is no better way to stay in touch with the rich traditions of our faith.

[@mini_chimp_in_a_suit]

Stfu I'm sure they were passing down songs from over 500 years ago. These songs aren't catholic. And what is everyone of your family so selective you have to take a DNA test to prove your 100% gallic. No possible way. You definetly are on the lower spectrum

[@ButteredCalamari]

No thoughts head empty Celtic vibes only

[@stetsonstarkey]

I'm here for the Realms of Beleriand video. Great stuff.

[@HarpsichordHymnsTimRemington]

I really love hearing this music. What an amazing effort to recreate music from medieval times with great performances.

[@seanmarshall7529]

Humbling... the first reaction... M'ha commosso fino all'anima... grazie

[@thomethemistocles-madeira8488]

When the clouds gather in the sky/ When the omens say the fate / oh, there they come in square sails / bringing fire and fury/ when the longboats aseen then/protect us o Lord/ from the wrath of northmen...

[@lalaholland5929]

Thank you for the translation

[@karl-heinzkranich5914]

Schön gespielt , wunderbar .

[@stefanbujas6947]

Ich bewundere die Hirten aus Ihren Zelten, Yurten für die Kraft des Wanderns und kriegerische Manieren. Die Zelten- Nomaden finde ich Toll. WAN DA L stefan Bóganin, Pogane ,Got A HURA WANDA,mazda

[@77gregorymoey]

I've discovered this music and I've switched from Praise & Worship music to this..

[@uhuihiuihiuh3042]

Feels like I'm playing an awesome mod for Mount and Blade but I'm just sitting here drinking.

[@josevipadilla7224]

Bellísima Música y excelente interpretación, Gracias una vez más por deleitarnos con estas joyas musicales.

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@claudehediguer8059]

Ohhh! With images of the Book of Keels ! Wonderfull. Thanks a lot. 💐💐💐🌸🌱🕊

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@jgdaillet79]

Ô magnificent and forgotten peuple offert celts ! Your beautiful musical réponds is of tour beauty that hall rose fonce again .

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@Kampfwageneer]

i play trad music in seisuns and really this is the type of sound id say that originally got me into the music.

[@VFella]

My neck hairs raised with the antiphon. The drone of the bagpipes make it sound really distinct!

[@alesjamsek2324]

Medieval paintings from Ireland around 800 AD.Carolinic manuscript.

[@MusicaMedievale]

It’s the Book of Kells

[@realLWD]

Script is Insular Majuscule. An Uncial script.

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

However the book of kells was with almost-certainty written and illuminated in Scotland or Northumbria.

[@Lummington1337]

@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo yeah in the Columban monasteries

[@charlottebecherova6308]

@@realLWD Isn't it minuscel? :) and it's half-unciale

[@Apriluser]

What a gift to us all. Thank you!

[@shari382]

Gives me goosebumps all over

[@shari382]

So stirring

[@nabaneetsharma451]

True

[@arnebovarne7759]

This has given me a wonderful experience and insight.

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@wesleyfilms7342]

Beautiful

[@Hylas67]

Sister Fidelma brings me here 😘

[@jeffinjapan9005]

May the Irish once again embrace Holy Orthodoxy; the faith of their ancestors.

[@gloriascientiae7435]

Just found this randomly this morning. nice to wake up with ^^. great job!

[@BaronvonMoorland]

Right here with you

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@rossanopinelli5150]

Al solito, meraviglie. E il Book of Kells è forse il libro più bello del mondo.

[@MusicaMedievale]

Grazie Rossano🌹

[@bennettbullock9690]

It's clearly medieval music, but it has a sort of primal freshness to it, doesn't it? Like Tibetan art's take on traditional Buddhist themes. What gets me about pre-Tudor Ireland is this heady mix of sophistication and liveliness. A young, vigorous civilization, stamped out before its time. It reminds me of Charles the Bald's question to John Eurigena Scottus - "Quid distat inter sottus et scottus?" "What is the difference between a drunkard and an Irishman?" "Taberculum tantum." "Only a table."

[@martinguillermovadillogarc6187]

¡Grandiosa música! ¡Exquisitas imágenes! ¡Gracias!

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@harpingmomma]

thank you for the excellent pics of the Book of Kells!

[@EdiDrums]

Heavily, picks elated

[@Mayaperest]

this channel is all i need

[@papagenoharto]

A MARVELLOUS WONDER

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@papagenoharto]

@@MusicaMedievale Many thanks for your work. Good luck always. Ciao

[@knowledgevoyage8828]

Listening to the music of my ancestors as I work on videos for my KZbin history channel is perfect!

[@alinebarroca01]

No words to express how much i love it !!! Thank you so much !!!

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@PerKristian]

Time to fire up the Age Of Empires II Tutorial!

[@MusicaMedievale]

Yes!

[@Vingul]

Beste spillet.

[@dominiquemanchon9914]

17:33 Lauda Anima Mea, un véritable blues médiéval !

[@captainl1911]

Girl: what is your type of music. My: is complicate

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@angelicajosefinarodriguezo6234]

Extraordinario !, una joya en todos los sentidos !, Gracias !♥️

[@MusicaMedievale]

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[@VIKINGSAGAS]

Fan-Tastic! Thank you fo creating this and sharing it.

[@Kolchak_Enjoyer]

Ngl they have cool paintings

[@tommyrobinson9862]

Amazing stuff, love the artwork too!

[@guillaumehannequin1920]

It's beautiful I love it !

[@robertboyle2573]

Time travel music.

[@WarriorKingT22]

Fantastic!