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Monday, August 31, 2009

Dies Irae, a Gregorian Chant


Dies Irae (detail)

Dies Irae (detail) by I, Puzzled.
Notation for the Gregorian Sequence from the Liber Usualis, showing the neumes.

Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla

Day of wrath, that day
the world will be dissolved in ashes.

The book is the Liber Usualis, the bible of Gregorian chant.

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Well I just ran across this - serendipitously. I remember singing this in choir many aeons ago. Kinda a catchy tune. Sticks in the head.
  Dee xxoo

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