| Author | Topic: Add: Rorate | |
| Ed | Posted - 30 Jun 03 - 08:27 pm | |
Another from Mary in Kentucky: (Note: The book that Mary got this from, does not include the lyrics along with the score, hence their absence) Rorate 1. Rorate coeli desuper! Heavens, distil your balmy showere; For now is risen the bright Daystar, From the rose Mary, flower of flowers: The clear Sun, whom no cloud devours, Is comen of his heavenly towers, Et nobis puer natus est. 2. Sinners be glad, and penance do, And thank your Maker heartfully; for he that ye might not come to, To you is comen full humbly, Your soul�¨s with his blood to buy, And loose you of the fiend's arrest, And only of his own mercy; Pro nobis puer natus est. 3. Celestial fowl�¨s in the air, Sing with your not�¨s upon height, In firth�¨s and in forests fair Be mirthful now at all your might; For pass�¨d is your dully night; Aurora has the cloud*egrave;s pierced, The sun is risen with gladsome light, Et nobis puer natus est. 4. Sing heaven imperial, most of height, Regions of air make harmony, All fish in flood and fowl of flight Be mirthful and make melody: All Gloria in excelsis cry, Heaven, earth, sea, man, bird, and beast; He that is crowned above the sky Pro nobis puer natus est. Source: The Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw. Notes: Music: Scottish traditional, words from a poem by William Dunbar. The original poem "On the Nativity of Christ" can be found in the Oxford Book of English Verse. An online version is here: http://www.bartleby.com/101/20.html The database entry is here | ||
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Posted - 13 Oct 03 - 06:35 am | |
From: Hil Does anyone recognize the "traditional Scottish tune" given with the text "Rorate coeli desuper" in the old Oxford Book of Carols (and in this site's midi) and now widely sung? Does it have another name? Thanks in advance. :-) | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 13 Oct 03 - 07:21 am | |
I recognise it, but I can't place it at the moment. Perhaps it will come to me if I think about something else. The abc is a bit odd. I'm not sure why all the notes are halved, but I expect I've just settled into doing things differently. The rest in bar 13 is definitely wrong, though: it's given as Z1/2, which produces a very strange result. z1/2 (or just z/) would do the trick. | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 13 Oct 03 - 10:41 am | |
I've just checked the abc. Not all notes are halved but a good number of them are. It is one of those different ways things, it could have been written using L:1/8 and doubling the crotchets/quarter notes and been equally correct. I have fixed the rest. Z (upper case) is defined as a full bar rest. I'm afraid I can't help with the tune. It has a couple of phrases that sound familiar but I'm pretty sure I've not heard it before. Jon ---- Just noticed I'd said Q:1/8 - have changed that to L:1/8. Edited By Jon Freeman - 14-Oct-2003 03:11:58 AM | ||