I know little about Renaissance music, and will simply share the words along with translations:
Spem in alium nunquam habui
Praeter in te, Deus Israel
Qui irasceris et propitius eris
et omnia peccata hominum
in tribulatione dimittis
Domine Deus
Creator caeli et terrae
respice humilitatem nostram
I have never put my hope in any other
but in You, O God of Israel
who can show both anger and graciousness,
and who absolves all the sins
of suffering man
Lord God,
Creator of Heaven and Earth
be mindful of our lowliness
This era has no distinct melody and melds harmonies with little to no pulse. What I love is that music continues to evolve, this modern pieces sounds similar.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs
Nels’ Map to Spem in alium (as taken from Wikipedia)
ReplyDelete• 0:00-~3:06: Red begins… then enters orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue… eventually voices begin to die out in the order in which they came in (i.e. red dies first, then orange, ect.) (Note the weird section between 2:51-3:02 in which green and yellow join with cyan and blue for a short period of time)
• ~3:06-3:32: BOOM!!! Everybody in, an explosion of sound
• 3:32-5:20: Essentially the same thing as the first section, but now goes in reverse order (i.e. blue comes in first)
• 5:20-5:47: BOOM!!! Everybody in, an explosion of sound
Note: gets Shady here
• 5:47-6:28: Many of the same themes from the beginning continue here (i.e. where two choirs come in and drop out)
• 6:28-6:39: BOOM!!! Everybody in, an explosion of sound (but it is a very small explosion)
• 6:39-7:59: Supposedly there is a part in the piece in which the choirs begin a sort of call-and-response to one another (the fancy word was antiphony). It may begin at 6:36, but it does not become evident to me until around 7:00 in which blue leads and is answered by red and orange… this goes on for awhile and I think becomes very much evident around 7:20 (Note:It is possible that it actually begins after the explosion with green beginning the call, answered by lighter green, then yellow, blue, and then light blue, then red-orange)
• 8:00-8:12: BOOM!!! Everybody in, an explosion of sound
• 8:12-9:04: Back to the opening themes, this time cyan and green begin, followed by yellow, orange and red (Note that green, yellow, orange, red combo is repeated from the first three minutes… blues are left out)
• 9:04-End: This is the point where You start crying tears of joy