Perotin - Beata Viscera

Beata Viscera composed by Perotin (fl. c. 1200). Performed by Early Music New York under the direction of Frederick Renz on their album "A Medieval Christmas".
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[@rosskirby9886]

A beautiful piece by Perotin. It makes you wonder how many other masterpieces of this period remain undiscovered.

[@sacalius_papalagius]

I agree, yet n actual fact there is such abundance archived medieval music documents that I doubt most of it has ever been performed.

[@patrickkeenan8443]

Perotin really knew his way around an EMU SP1200, the way he produced those vocals just can't be done with digital emulation. I remember seeing my boy Pero opening for Cannibal Ox around the turn of the millennium, he dropped Viderunt Omnes and the club went off, absolute carnage, habits in the air, tankards of mead flying overhead, dude wrecked the place. Really hope that plainchant acetate he cut with Skibadee gets a rerelease some time soon, prices are wild on Discogs.

[@goosegoose8982]

underrated comment.

[@greyswanlet]

😃

[@EnigmaticVagrant]

i stumbled upon this majestic piece that it invoke feelings of the past, harboring tragedy that weighs heavily in my heart, i can only say don't be afraid to cry, it'll free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. thank you for this piece Perotin, your music echoed through eternity

[@danawinsor1380]

What a poetic comment! Music and the other arts can send messages to us over the centuries. From the standpoint of music, one could say those messages are "encoded" in the notation, waiting to be discovered.

[@anasourchane8250]

Why am i crying right now ? I dont now why ..

[@richardgray5069]

Pretty good for an eight-hundred-year-old recording.

[@andrewcopeland9484]

Hahahahaha!! GOOD ONE!!

[@nushnum]

Holds up quite well to modern standards

[@Rickriquinho]

LOL

[@16amends16]

😂

[@kaptainkassanis]

😂😂😂

[@blatio8131]

“The Music Shop” by Rachel Joyce brought me here. The main character described this song as stepping onto a birds back so I had to come listen.

[@janecochrane4865]

I just read that sentence too!

[@genie42078]

i just had to check it out on my kindle - "every time you see a bird, you'll think of this"

[@kfm7398]

Same here

[@roshardy5904]

Me too!

[@firosuke]

That's such a good image for this music

[@derniercaesar5319]

medieval music is so underrated

[@coltonrodrigo3491]

pro tip: you can watch movies at flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies during the lockdown.

[@daxzavier2996]

@Colton Rodrigo definitely, I've been watching on flixzone for years myself :D

[@FallenKing13]

It’s just primitive... But has a hidden beauty that only those who feel the history in their soul will understand the magic of the past

[@yeah8598]

Agreed

[@hellomate639]

@@FallenKing13 I think the key is to recognize that such magic is still there and all around us, invisible. Part of my life's work will be hopefully to convince people of that, and to orient them towards producing a life that is enriched by such beauty, to see the beauty as imbued into the universe that we live in. It's optimistic, perhaps, but this is the world we *truly* wish to live in. People escape to fantasy books, shows, movies and TV games because this is *exactly* what they're missing in their own lives. It's time to bring the mystery back into daily life, one work of art, building, community, act of charity, etc. at a time.

[@MadeleineWilliams-no9ko]

I also have Rachel Joyce's Music shop book to thank for discovering this music. I would also recommend Hildergard von Bingen if you enjoyed this. So uplifting.

[@chrismallinson575]

Music to cleanse the soul. Utterly beautiful ❤️

[@MiguelTicona]

Bro this is gold

[@paradxxicalkxrruptixn7296]

0:39 Anybody know if this kind of sound/motif has a name? The constant note under a melody on a violin-ish instrument. I just love the sound.

[@elliottgdesign]

Organum

[@firosuke]

More generally I believe a sustained note like that (e.g. Indian music, sitar) is called a drone.

[@karaloca]

I have the original recording of this, it was etched into a huge stone, a bit like a millstone, to play it you had to scrape a flint over it attached to a wooden stick. It still sounds great today.

[@aigledesmontagnes1044]

Louange à Dieu le Père, Louange à Jésus-Christ vrai Lumière, Louange à l'Esprit-Saint l'intercesseur : Un seul et même hommage à l'auguste Trinité. Amen Qu'il en soit ainsi +

[@orcagna164]

I was fortunate enough to hear this masterpiece of Perotin's performed in a magnificent chapel within the Cloisters in NY by the Ensemble for Early Music, directed by Frederick Renz. This version - posted here - is one of the most unique interpretations I've ever heard (and I've sought out every one). It may very well be the best. It is absolutely stunning, mysterious, haunting, evocative, sacred and sublime. Renz and his company deserve the highest praise possible. I do wish that the poster would add the name of the superb countertenor who is singing here. Deepest thanks for the music.

[@hudsony777]

I heard this last night on air and came to listen here. Online it says: David James - countertenor

[@ATrain1550]

Marshall Coid - countertenor.

[@orcagna164]

@@ATrain1550 Thank you Susan! Marshall Coid was in fact the counter tenor I heard perform this live with the Ensemble for Early Music, but I did not know if he was the performer on the CD.

[@orcagna164]

@@hudsony777 Well I''m confused Claudio, because the CD states Marshall Coid as the countertenor. But that's assuming the version here is the same one as found on the CD "A Medieval Christmas."

[@hudsony777]

@@orcagna164 I really have no idea. I found it here...a year ago: www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=7004 Just trying to help. It's so mesmerizing whoever it is.

[@bootman26]

I wish you'd posted the score as it was performed so I could do my best to read along.

[@yurttgjk]

Very nice... It's exalt and calms me down somehow.

[@ladyjoyespino6822]

Thank you Clarice. This is lovely and one really should lie on their back to listen. ♥️

[@menicabersani4826]

Avevo bisogno di riscoprire cosa può fare di bello l'uomo.

[@wallacepearse8322]

Blessed flesh of the Virgin Mary, at whose breast the king of eminent name, concealing, under altered guise, the force of divine nature, has sealed a pact of God and Man. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth. Vision does not endure to behold in its radiance the sun, unconcealed, as he rises forth, pure. Let the wholly enclosed womb of the mother behold from the side as it is reflected. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.

[@AeenJabbarizadeh]

😅 Very Good And Nice Song

[@kaisersoze9880]

medieval! Perotin.. 70 years man.. 1160 to 1230 ? a bad ass !

[@jchrg2336]

Every so once in a while I stumble upon good music and I listen to it of course and it does make my day.

[@jchrg2336]

Well welcome to the family... There is no room for like in between ''Love conquers all''

[@loupgaroux9587]

This is the original voice.

[@kaybrown4010]

This is a counter tenor? Wow!

[@danterosenberg7506]

Sounds right!

[@chumegathegoat7750]

Are you sure? It sounds more like a soprano.

[@DwightNewton]

Really should have used the right manuscript image for the Beata viscera. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9rotin#/media/File:Beata_viscera.jpg

[@lncolle5649]

B Latio-that's how I found it too! A great way of rediscovering famous titles!

[@molote1256]

nice msuic 🔥

[@Mike-nd6ox]

Perotin among the first composers” The best !

[@nrivers3816]

Heard the violins she had a lot to her voice. It was almost like Opera. It had a lot of medieval times.

[@hellomate639]

She's a he.

[@Nabanitacg]

I heard this song first in the series " Ripley" from netflix ...ethereal ..

[@sb6678]

They really knew how to write music in those days

[@florencemartinlemanach2549]

Notre Dame de Paris....

[@MadMusicologist]

Beautiful. I wonder what kind of instrument is shown at ca. 1:03....

[@sycration]

I think it is a carillon

[@1ValentinGeorge]

WOW!!!

[@mikemcclary3531]

CONSONANCE in a DISSONANT World-- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet, Georgia Perimeter College and State University

[@bolikilelik]

❤️

[@jchrg2336]

I guess it's all ok , good and well and I would leave it that way.

[@dogdogger2264]

I would also

[@jchrg2336]

Love conquers all!

[@dogdogger2264]

*if elephants come we fight back *if humans come we'll fight back *if evil comes we'll fight back

[@dorkamus_corkstag9692]

Wasn't this the same piece used in the 1991 Enigma album?

[@Gguy061]

Does any organ music survive from this period? Why did they bring out instruments? How did they pick notes for them?

[@marinaqueiroz323]

Who sing this???

[@kira.wehmut7]

Marshall Coid, counter tenor

[@MarshallArtz007]

Beata Viscera Marie Virginis Beata viscera Marie virginis cuius ad ubera rex magni nominis; veste sub altera vim celans numinis dictavit federa Dei et hominis O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium. Populus gentium sedens in tenebris surgit ad gaudium partus tam celebris: Iudea tedium fovet in latebris, cor gerens conscium delicet funebris, O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium. Legis mosayce clausa misteria; nux virge mystice nature nescia; aqua de silice, columpna previa, prolis dominice signa sunt propera. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium. Solem, quem librere, Dum purus otitur In aura cernere visus non patitur, cernat a latere dum repercutitur, alvus puerpere, qua totus clauditur. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium Blesses Womb of the Virgin Mary Blessed womb of the virgin Mary on whose breasts the king of great name; under others garments concealing his divine power formed a treaty for men and God. O new marvel and new joy, a mother still virgin after giving birth. The people having been born of nations sitting in darkness so prevalent rose to joy; Judea supported weariness in retreat, the heart bearing honesty may it acknowledge the death. O new marvel and new joy, a mother still virgin after giving birth. The mysteries of the Mosaic law have been closed; mystical fruit of the rod not know by nature; water from the rock, a column leading the way, they are speeding signs for the people of the Lord. O new marvel and new joy, a mother still virgin after giving birth. May I reveal, may it be pondered, while the pure one rises in heaven you are seen a vision not suffered may he see from the side while it is reflected the womb birthed a child which is wholly closed. O new marvel and new joy, a mother still virgin after giving birth. Music by Pérotin (1160-1230) Text by Philip the Chancellor (c. 1160-1236) English Translation by Isaac Siefker

[@jonatan6435]

me recuerda a unravel

[@yeah8598]

Im the 1k like

[@jchrg2336]

There is no like in between, you either love me or not! It's as simple as that!

[@jchrg2336]

It is what God is instructing and inspiring what the body should do next (and in this case my body)

[@jchrg2336]

We don't run off , we fireing the trebuchette, because I sure a the kin of king and don't tollerate it to be treated like this, if you want to play me, go buy a toy and play with that

[@jchrg2336]

Everybody turns greedy with all the money and riches in our kingdom Father

[@jchrg2336]

Than count your blessings every day

[@dogdogger2264]

Yep

[@walterbayha3283]

Klingt ungewohnt, aber doch feierlich.