{"id":105,"date":"2010-12-24T00:38:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2010-12-24T00:38:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:38:50","slug":"personent-hodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/personent-hodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Personent Hodie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Personent<\/a>
\nOne tradition I keep this time of year is performing with the Early Music Players at Theodore Parker Church<\/a>, my UU Alma Mater. Or something like that. Its a long story.<\/p>\n

Anyways – the players are a bunch of recorder and string enthusiasts who assemble at least once a year to perform on Christmas Eve before the church service begins at 5 pm. We’re always augmented at the last minute by the extremely talented and experienced Tom Zajac, who plays just about everything ancient and has a very sensitive ear. He’ll arrange things on the fly for us during the penultimate rehearsal, and we always seem to pull together and make some very special Christmas music.<\/p>\n

We get the majority of our material from a book of carols arranged for recorder, and some of the selections are quite old. One old tune caught my ear this year, and so, I decided to pursue it.<\/p>\n

So here it is<\/a>. Now that I listen to it, I see that I’ve once again abused my trademarky tampura-like drone thing, just like I did with Red Serpent<\/a>. (A voice says, ‘Same key, too.’) But I guess it’s one of those spots-and-leopards things. Plus I couldn’t resist the temptation to become a chorus of monks.<\/p>\n

Here are the Latin words I found. All the English translations are really bad, so I am going to leave you to ponder the magnum mysterium on your own. Or you can wikipedia it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Personent hodie
\nVoces puerulae,
\nLaudantes iocunde
\nQui nobis est natus,
\nSummo Deo datus,
\nEt de vir- vir- vir-,
\nEt de vir- vir- vir-,
\nEt de virgineo
\nventre procreatus.<\/p>\n

In mundo nascitur,
\nPannis involvitur,
\nPraesepi ponitur
\nStabulo brutorum,
\nRector supernorum.
\nPerdidit spolia
\nprinceps infernorum.<\/p>\n

Magi ires venerunt;
\nMunera offerunt;
\nParvulum inquirunt,
\nStellulam sequendo,
\nIpsum adorendo.
\nAurum, thus, et myrrham
\nEi offerendo.<\/p>\n

Omnes clericuli,
\nPariter pueri,
\nCantent ut angeli:
\n“Advenisti mundo:
\nLaudes tibi fundo.”
\nIdeo, gloria, in excelsis deo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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