Medieval Music "Vox Vulgaris - Stella Splendens"

[@Stariod1994]

I work at this Medieval Center here in Denmark. And every time we are having knight-battles, our orchestra is playing this music. Absolutely love it!

[@lemonloaf2150]

I’ve never heard of a medieval center but it sounds really cool!

[@ml1569]

Its been 12 years now,how’s life ?

[@disputedname]

Is it moesgaard?

[@pizzaowl1305]

Wow, this song was made in 2009 but people are still listening to it 11 years later. What a timeless song!

[@_Lumiere_]

So glad to be in the generation that grew up with this!

[@moonjavaart]

This song was surely made before 2009 😊 like by a few centuries?

[@emilioliano9411]

@@moonjavaart This song is an interpretation of the original song. We don't know how it actually sounded, as medieval music was written down in a more vague format than what we have now from the classical music composers. Specially in the case of popular songs like this one. So this version was released in 2003 by Vox Vulgaris. We don't know exactly how the original sounded, so we can only hope it is a good interpretation of teh original.

[@moonjavaart]

@@emilioliano9411 interesting, we can only imagine I guess. Unless some songs have been sung by grand parents and kept alive that way

[@wikkidize]

Bro this song is from 1340

[@Reginvalt]

This music helps me when I feel bad. It makes me feel again, makes me go on, reminds that every problem I have people faced and coped long before I was born.

[@sullivannix4509]

You are going to overcome all the darkness that tries to enter your path! You got this!

[@jamesdorey]

This just shows me the medieval world more than any film or painting ever could. Simply astonishing to listen to.

[@Mothman156]

It brings a tear to thine eye.

[@tooley6969]

Life was bitter and hard so the parties had to be even harder. A lot of overdoses and murder, like college.

[@Just-in-Space]

That age often is underestimated for the art that they produced. Like their music. It great to still have pieces from that time. Even without the romanticism of it.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

Especially as by that time, plate-armored men-at-arms were being made obsolete with improving tactics and firearms.

[@yosevoaken6957]

@@Retro-Future-Land Knights were not just soldiers. They were the protectors of the commonwealth. One of the codes of chivalry was to give your cloak to a woman when it was raining to shield her, or to lay your cloak on the floor in areas that women could not pass due to mud puddles, etc. The reason women walk on the left side of the side walk was so that the knight would receive the mud splash from the horses and carriages that road by. If only we European Aryans still held unto these values.

[@12lmeganl12]

It's one of those songs that makes you breath deeper. When a song does that you know it's gone deep

[@Bohewulf]

fantastic sounds. So uncommon to our ears. just wonderful.

[@Michael_______]

Maybe so

[@ertrupik670]

The paradox is that now more people listen at this compared with then...

[@ankkymangal2734]

So many masterpieces like this one are lost. But they will be found one day, one way or another.

[@MrHestichs]

Fun fact, this song is taking directly from the manuscript Llibre Vermell de Montserrat.

[@VITOLLFOTOGRAFIA]

but without lyrics...

[@karlhans6678]

+MrHestichs was this a real medieval music?

[@VITOLLFOTOGRAFIA]

Karl Hans Yes.

[@kagtkalem7115]

How is this funny?

[@cristipuchi]

@@kagtkalem7115 i guess because nofuckingbody knows about catalan culture 🤷

[@hakko_06]

I don’t know how many times i have listened to this music, marvellous!

[@ironmaiden93ofangmar]

For some reason this music inspires me to create a medieval/fantasy world for a video game :D

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

For some reason?^^

[@letiziaros5407]

listening to this kind of music makes me travel trough time, i can't put in words what i feel... just so beautiful

[@zackb161]

Love your choice of imagery. Authentic medieval illustrations. No wizards and dragons

[@alexandrelct826]

But you know in the medieval mindset wizards and dragons use to exist. Dragons are the representation of the devil, and they were sometime inquisition and judgement against witch and wizards, which was some marginalized people beeing accused for some pagan behaviors in rude time. If you find a true medieval representation of it, so why not? For example Saint-Michel against the dragon in the apocalypse is a common representation in medieval era.

[@sna1976]

He captures the spirit, time and places of a people long gone but alive in the hearts of their descendants

[@Quetzalcoatlv3]

Imagine how much more is there to explore. I'm sure that not all of the medieval songs were written down. To the New World!

[@chance_fly4647]

I love the drum solo during the song, very well done

[@Korivassilyou]

So happy to see the great love for medieval music as manifested by VacnaPaul. Very interesting montage of medieval and modern art, including Queen Maud's embroidery. Magnas gratias tibi ago.

[@pam685]

I love this old times like a travel , I close my eyes and ❤❤❤

[@xUschiliciousx]

3:28-5:51 is epic *_* These drums take u on a trip

[@DarkEmpireGames]

The perfect combination of melody and the right instruments makes this song amazing, also great to throw into a game of Dungeons and Dragons!

[@Just-in-Space]

It is funny how most of the images seen in this video and in common knowledge of “medieval” are of often works of the great renaissance, Pre-Raphaelites and other more long past medieval times, art motifs. The piece was great and its a joy to be able to hear music of other eras that would have been lost to time.

[@Just-in-Space]

If I look through again. Only one image shown is from the medieval period and it the tapestry shown towards the end. Lol

[@lilianneknight3039]

So beautiful ❤

[@CarrionKnight]

Top ten bangers of the 1500s

[@johnleigh2710]

Notwithstanding the arguments below, a truly sublime play list evocative of a simpler time long ago. Close your eyes and be transported to a tavern or a great house banquet of the 13 th century. Thank you.

[@JohnLeonardMusic1]

This is the best performance of this piece I've ever heard! So much improvisation.

[@LanderMusica]

This song is from "Llibre Vermell de Monserrat" (Catalonia) in Spain in the Middle Age. There was a war for 800 years between Moors and Christians, do not go so far. Is very Spanish this song.

[@georgegera5708]

Aaaah yes the reconquista ,one of the greatest achievements of Christianity

[@NapoleonBonaparte5]

@@georgegera5708 Not really its greatest achievement was creating a sort of unity among Europeans and destroying tribal lawlessness and savagery that is until the reformation by those Lutheran dogs...

[@georgegera5708]

@@NapoleonBonaparte5 i said one of the greatest not the greatest

[@leolebeau4392]

@@inmortalimperioespanol-spa7461, Bonaparte is right, he only explained some of the effects of christianity in the western world and the damages done by luther. I dont think you understand witten english very well my dude.

[@leolebeau4392]

@@inmortalimperioespanol-spa7461 Oh and best spain is Bourbon spain.

[@sunifred8517]

The first time i heard this song was in the cathedral of Vic, sung by a choir. Magical, great song

[@014157613]

This tune is the one used by Blackmore's night in their classic piece and video, " Locked within the crystal ball"

[@adminadmin8694]

This tune was also used by French group Tri Yann in song "Arthur Plantagenêt" (also known as "Arthur Plantagenest")

[@Toshiro_Mifune]

corvus corax have performed it as well, and i think it's the most majestic/epic version yet

[@RazorSliceDecor-r3c]

It's also used by a medieval black metal band called 'Obsequiae' in their album 'Suspended in the brume of Eos'

[@luzestrellarojasr3842]

Grandes!! me encanta su música... Algún día espero verlos en concierto y gracias por existir!!!

[@VITOLLFOTOGRAFIA]

Esta versión no está mal, pero si quieres oírla en su esplendor, te recomiendo que la oigas a Jordi Savall- Esperion XXI, que son los auténticos especialistas en el medieval español.

[@luzestrellarojasr3842]

Admiro a Jordi Savall por su perfección en la interpretación y he seguido su música desde hace algun tiempo, sin embargo, todo grupo tiene su sello propio aunque hagan tan sólo interpretaciones. El power que tiene Vox Vulgaris, no lo tiene Jordi Savall... y eso me encanta!!!

[@haeleth7218]

My favourite part of history is 410AD to 1066AD, the so-called Dark Ages, but this music is superb also.

[@Life_Is_Torture0000]

Takes me back to the summer of 1350...ah, those were the days, with all those plague victims rotting in shallow graves.

[@JordiPujadesGirona]

Close enough. This song appears in a codex written at 1399 (and probably it's older).

[@jesjames]

I still remember when we met at the tavern😅

[@JackOpulski]

This song has carried me through so many difficult mornings to wake up to.

[@oozzkansas1163]

i love this non lyrical version, such a good story in instrumental way, thanks for uploading!

[@Cloudlesssoul]

The 19th century would have been great to live in in terms of music. But one benefit of living now is that we still get to listen to much of it, and - even better - we get to listen to such masterpieces as the Grosse Fugue in its true virtuosity - something that one wouldn't necessarily be able to dream of being able to do more than once or twice in your lifetime if you were lucky. I get to listen to it every day!

[@punpai4003]

Splendid. Beautiful. Comforting. I feel like exploring.

[@Dagger1610]

I love this. ..thanks for uploading, am really getting addicted to medieval music.

[@VikingsofDenmark]

True chivalry means being a good man - not for reward, and not in spite of consequence, but simply for the sake of doing what is right.

[@liamhart1202]

Shout out to that one kid in the 12th century who was "born in the wrong generation"

[@ngastakvakis4425]

this warmed my heart for some reason

[@liamhart1202]

@@ngastakvakis4425 you're ancestor was that kid and he got humbled hearing he got a shout out 8000 years later

[@liamhart1202]

@@tomh4754 shhh, shhh, SHHHH

[@JPel-jr7qj]

Ayyy, dying of the plague sure is a better alternative than this 1984 hellscape.

[@CENTURION.CARPATIC]

@@liamhart1202 :)))))))))))

[@rablees3755]

Enjoy the music regardless of any culture it truly is magical.

[@haribohospital27]

Felicitarile mele pt toate postarile.si eu iubesc muzica medievala.Numai bine!

[@LouAlvis]

thank you.. Vox is the best

[@carlamccoy]

Such a beautiful tune!

[@Zeppelinite87]

Absolutely majestic.

[@Sugamoto_Magazaki]

It just gives me goose bumps just thinking how would it feel to be a patron in the 14th century.. I mean the times may've been crappy at some points, but the opportunity to see the middle ages of the civilizations is just plainly put fascinating. :)

[@direwolf8608]

Amazing medieval vibes... I love it

[@livu69]

One of the best rendition of this song!

[@_PROCLUS]

Stella Splendens ("Splendid Star") is a polyphonic song (fol. 21v-22), with two parts voices from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

[@ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΖΩΗ]

Eastern Roman Empire = Greece & Western Europe = Friends ❤

[@tardessoleadas]

Espectacular!! estudiando historia del arte medieval con ésta música!!

[@unenlightenedbajie]

@SoldierofMetal1 The piece is believed to have been written by the 14th C. French poet and musician Guillaume De Machaut, who was pretty heavily influenced by the Arabian instruments imported to Europe following the Crusades. The stringed instrument that Stella Splendens was originally intended for was probably the uud/oud, a Middle-Eastern predecessor of the lute. This recording could well have been performed on a lute accompanied by the bagpipes (another Arabian import), and a flute.

[@Pyokichi]

That time is so beautiful !

[@aleksandral3891]

I'm glad I wasn't born in the Middle Ages, but this music almost transports me back in time, I feel like going to a Medieval ball or something!

[@ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΖΩΗ]

Eastern Roman Empire = Greece & Western Europe = Friends ❤

[@eohaver2]

Absolutely fabulous; if music were food, this would be a large piece of tiramisu. Made from scratch by someone's Italian grandmother.

[@MariusVerbavicius]

I can't.....can't...not to listen to these masterpiece's . I like liquid DnB and maybe this even more. Remember playing stronghold and this kind of music in the background. Ah....

[@dismith73]

Virelai/danse: Stella Splendens (fol. 22r) ("Splendid Star") is from The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat which was compiled in, and is still located at, the monastery of Montserrat outside Barcelona. The manuscript was prepared in approximately 1399. It originally contained 172 double pages, of which 32 have been lost. Six folios contain music. The title "The Red Book of Montserrat" describes the red binding in which the collection was placed in the 19th century. No composer is identified for any of the songs it contains.

[@Don_David]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@ozzymandi]

Thank ou very much for posting this. Great music, Fascinating!

[@preparada2010]

simplesmente maravilhoso !thanks for sharing !

[@AlexM.317]

thank you so much for uploading this wonderful song!!

[@Shagbark_Hick]

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of early music on youtube, in my opinion. It reminds me of all that we have lost in the nihilistic march forth into modernity. Music like this makes a soul that has even the faintest evidence of a warm coal left in it yearn for the simplicity and order, however brutal, of a former era.

[@dustyjuiceboy]

So edge. Such soul. Much deep.

[@John--Silver]

@@dustyjuiceboy Nice dead meme, almost as old as the song. Impressive.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

@@dustyjuiceboy I remeber those days of order and faith, and service to the doge of venice.

[@BelisariusAlKhwarizmi]

@@John--Silver Yeah now Doge is a racist with a foot fetish

[@Thorvelt]

Wow, you're so profound. Wish I could die of an infected wound malnourished at age 40 after giving half my harvest to the lord like my ancestors 😤😤😤

[@gardaly69]

1.6 million views. Holy fuck! I fucking love all of you for this. These are some of my most favourite songs. Nice to meet so many brothers and sisters.

[@96FireHeart]

Amazing song, amazing period.

[@alabasterindigo]

10 year gem. Dang, this sounds so nice.

[@paoloemilioregno1576]

Amazing music!

[@musungutuloko]

The tune is so beautiful in this song. I love the flute at 5:23.

[@DieLuftwaffel]

First picture is called "Don Quixote Knight and Death" by Theodor Baierl

[@rogerio75217]

Como português, revisito as minhas raízes, transporto-me para aqueles tempos... BELÍSSIMO!!! LINDO!!!!

[@1ballerina]

Gorgeous. Thank you.

[@AndresFigari]

" In which the flute is absolutely brilliant." YES!

[@CelticMedievalGuitar]

i want to go back in timeeeeee

[@CelticMedievalGuitar]

ok no problem Mafalda come to my medieval channel

[@vivien6160]

@@CelticMedievalGuitar Thank you :)

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

be careful with the plague and toothache though 😛

[@CelticMedievalGuitar]

OK OK Bezahlter Systemtroll

[@conn0rized292]

No you don't. Trust me on that.

[@A-Z632]

This has no business slapping as hard as it does

[@belegulo]

Medieval times are usually called dark ages because we know a very little about it; not because of the church. In fact, thanks to it we know a lot about this illuminated ages for arts.

[@KrampusDerWilde]

No, It's because of the Church that no one knows, they only retained what they want to tell the story at convenience.

[@whatever12.]

@@KrampusDerWilde the church were the ones that preserved old texts (im talking about documents that go way back in classical times), without em those would have been lost to time.

[@goodaimshield1115]

@@KrampusDerWilde No, the real reason is because the "illustrated" French (and to a lesser extent the Italian humanists) were not as cool nor as "illuminated" nor "illustrated" nor "humain" as they cliamed to be, so in order to make themselves look better than what they actually were, they had to throw trash on pass centuries and on anything that didn't ressemble 18th century French culture or pseudo roman greek classic culture (because it was not even the actual original latin/greek culture). If you're not good enough, make everyone else look terrible so you can stand out. And some stupid people bought it. In fact, there are people so stupid that even to this day, 100 years after the whole Dark Ages was deemed a 16th-17th and mostly 18th century invention, still think the Dark Ages was a thing and that the Church was responsible for it.

[@KrampusDerWilde]

@@goodaimshield1115 I can't buy that theory at all, the burning of the Alexandrian Library and the genocide of the Celts/Druids all along with their texts and stories are the church's shame.

[@connorbrignall9914]

@@KrampusDerWilde yeah and then the Anglo saxons came and fucked up the cells even more.

[@Nem87]

Beautiful! Very inspiring.

[@nf3922]

"I behold at thee all seeth loveth th're yond's slumbering while mine lute gently weeps"

[@Ella_Noorr]

@Atamv I know but had not thought that people take it seriously . but the music is beautiful

[@mellowgirl11]

this song made me write a whole story... I feel so accomplished and its such a mysterious song i love it

[@papajohn2288]

could you link to the story ? :3

[@myo1490]

This was written 7 years ago and people are asking them for that xd (share the story if you can :D)

[@Feezwa]

@Lucius Faust Vinland is so good. I never imagined Japanese artists can capture vikings so well.

[@RoninAvenger]

I need to find more of this stuff.

[@VacnaPaul]

I think it actually refers to the "Voice of the people" - which is also vulgar. I think the word has several senses.

[@medievalmusiclover]

Oh my Sweet God. This just wonderful.

[@conncork]

The first illustration is from Theodor Baierl. Don Quixote with Death, based on 'The Knight, Death and the Devil' by Albrecht Durer

[@MarcelTeugels]

Thanks! Helpfull

[@BrancoIvanovici92]

Awesome piece of music

[@LADYHAGUA10]

Thanks excelent!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@roborob2164]

It's just amazing I fell in love with this song

[@arosha1934]

I'm really like this music, I found this music from tiktok, I'm Arosha from sri lanka 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰 AYUBOWAN ආයුබෝවන් 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️

[@noahpayne5065]

That bass dropped harder than the walls of Constantinople in 1453

[@HDMaco13]

You're laughing ? Constantinople just fell and you're laughing ?

[@order_truth_involvement6135]

Maco13 The turkodox stank, mmmm, oof

[@tremaineification]

Yes indeed hahaha

[@shaalis]

verily!

[@dabtican4953]

Too soon...

[@margaretmcvickers9006]

Thank you so much, I wish you many blessings.

[@Gandalf_the_Black_]

This is my favourite version of Stelle splendens. One might even call it splendid

[@pr0chszy]

3:27 epic renaissance solo ahead

[@VITOLLFOTOGRAFIA]

"Llibre vermell de Montserrat" there is where compiled this work, you may find interpretations of this theme, very faithful to the original by Jordi Savall.

[@guidodebondt1]

seeing what people are capable of i can only but agree , peace is , like gods , something unearthly and reserved for simple souls

[@Ella_Noorr]

it's really beautiful music I really wish I lived in that time:D it was so much better than 20th

[@boomdos4265]

Nine years later...hope you are well Ermina.

[@Ella_Noorr]

Boom Dos Naaah this world is a fucking mess 😂😭 🤡

[@gamersislerr]

thank you for your labor

[@ANGELSVEN]

Ritchie Blackmore lifted a lot of medieval melodies and "made them his own," to put it politely.

[@Wyrmsworth]

Harpist Los Angeles True Renaissance tradition. "Locked into a crystal ball"

[@ErasmusPrime239]

life in the medieval times where harsh. but the music people made back in then was just amazing!!!

[@samuelxxviii873]

Orgulloso de mis raíces españolas, nací en Chile, pero no puedo negar mi etnia y mis antepasados, que probablemente eran conquistadores y llegaron a las Américas...

[@MLMcQuown]

Really great! Good job!

[@cole452zigzags]

thank you for some intelligence and all praise be to the All Father and the Goddess

[@lenny7773]

You're about 1,500 years late, pal

[@haroldb22]

es hermoso, la variedad de sonidos y ritmos.

[@d.a.g.c961]

We deserved a reconquista movie. EDIT: Oh no Amazon is going to make a serie about The Cid, let´s pray they do not portay him like a barbaric.

[@monkeyorful]

Do you understand you are speaking about a 800 years long period? I think its impossible to fit that into just a movie as awesome as it sounds hahaha

[@d.a.g.c961]

@@monkeyorful Okey then a serie

[@monkeyorful]

@@d.a.g.c961 that would be awesome actually, but not too fictional cause the real story is going to be better for sure.

[@heinzthorvald4675]

@Danny M sadly, this is true

[@fadiaz1969]

A reconquista series would be fantastic, and have this be opening music to each episode.

[@VITOLLFOTOGRAFIA]

Vox Vulgaris is the players. Stella Splendens is one of the "cantigas del llibre vermell " of Montserrat monastery in Spain.

[@KILLERDEVIL13]

When you begin a new run of your favourite RPG.

[@confusedwolf7157]

My word sirrah. Truly a bonne note!!

[@Zakidalski]

Very good song :) Medieval Age

[@MALDICTVS]

Beautiful song :-bd ;) keep it up and upload more Regards from Transylvania