The Annunciation Choir sings the Kyrie from the Missa O Magnum Mysterium by Victoria. O Magnum Mysterium - Tomás Luis de Victoria 1548-1611 Victoria was born in Spain, but spent the bulk of his career in Rome. The text tells the story of the birth of Jesus, and Lauridsen’s music is as sensitive and spiritual as you could possibly wish for. Program Notes By Dennis Keene. This is a book of some 1900 pages of plainsong, compiled in the 1890s by the monks of the French Abbey of Solesmes, under the editorship of the then Abbot, Dom Andre La segunda sección comienza en homofonía con “O beata virgo” y la tercera coincide con el cambio de compás (3/4) de la palabra Alleluia. An Analysis of Performance Practice Trends in Recent Recordings of Tomás Luis De Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium, O Quam Gloriosum, O Vos Omnes, and Officium Defunctorum as Related to Historical and Contemporary Scholarly Literature. Three Renaissance composers in particular, Giovanni Gabrieli, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina composed their own versions of “O Magnum… Words: Traditional. O Magnum Mysterium Hodie Christus natus est Sicut cervus. Did 16th-century Spaniard Tomás Luis de Victoria study under the great Palestrina? Although composed in 1994, O Magnum Mysterium took a good few years before garnering such widespread praise.
Well, let’s remember that—twenty years after composing “O Magnum Mysterium”—Fr. Can we keep singing it? O Magnum Mysterium Plain Song Setting and the Words The version of the plainsong melody of O Magnum Mysterium, which is presented here, is taken from the Liber Usualis. The compelling text of “O Magnum Mysterium,” once a Nativity responsory from the Gregorian times[1] has been set to music many times, from the beginning of the Renaissance era to the present day. “O Magnum Mysterium” was part of the matins service for Christmas. Music: Tomás L. de Victoria . close When the Los Angeles Master Chorale commissioned Morten Lauridsen’s setting of “O Magnum Mysterium” in 1994, few people anticipated that it would launch the acclaimed composer’s career. Genre Traditional, Catholic, Mass, Polyphony, Victoria, O Magnum Mysterium
That means, literally, the way they do it in the chapel; and chapels of this period usually had no organs, so it means unaccompanied. The Motet Like the Mass, the Renaissance Motet is a polyphonic sacred work in Latin meant to be sung by a choir of 4-8 parts, a cappella. O magnum mysterium is a six-part motet by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, based on the responsorial chant of the same name, and was written for the celebration of Christmas.The piece is intended to express the joy and awe that was felt by the shepherds as they celebrated and worshiped the Christ-child in the manger on Christmas Eve.
For much of the Middle Ages, matins took place roughly at midnight. This is probably his most famous work, and typical of many of his greatest motets: mystical, highly emotional, and … But the season of Christmas is often short, and that motet can’t be sung at other times of the year. The Latin text describes the nativity scene in which Christ was born and laid in a manger, and animals were witnesses to the sacrament of his birth: O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, and while it is performed all year round, the piece is, at its heart, all about Christmas. It was at that very first concert that music director Paul Salamunovich told the audience, “Until now, Vittoria’s O Magnum Mysterium has been the most beautiful and ACK in 2015, I created individual rehearsal videos for “O Magnum Mysterium,” and tens of thousands have downloaded them. Análisis de "O Magnum Mysterium" (T. L. de Victoria) ... Tiene tres secciones y una cuarta a modo de coda: la primera empieza en la entrada de soprano “O magnum mysterium” (hasta la palabra praesepio).