Kyrie: Orbis Factor, medieval chant of the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany (Lyric Video)

You like our content and you want to help us keep posting (you can donate as little as 1$ ): ---- Follow us on Twitter: ----------- About the chant: ----------- This is an intriguing record, illustrating some aspects of the musical life of a community of Benedictine nuns in the great French double monastery of Fontevrault, an early medieval royal foundation. In 1304, Eleanor of Brittany became its sixteenth Abbess, having been trained as a nun in the English daughter house of Amesbury. The Gradual that bears her arms contains, in addition to the normal chant repertoire, a special repertoire of its own (not, as mistranslated in the notes, ’’a repertory of the Proper’’ which, in any case, was already there). It is this collection of miscellaneous pieces that throw a special light on the musical life of these nuns. Some items were undoubtedly intended to embellish parts of the liturgy itself on high feast days; others are more likely to have been used as pious entertainment during moments of recreation—then as now, in monastic communities. #Gregorian #OrbisFactor #EnsembleOrganum ---------------- This chant is performed by CIRMA/ Ensemble Organum lead by Mr Marcel Pérès Website: Buy the CD from here: ----------- Text in Latin : Orbis factor rex aeterne, eleison Kyrie eleison Pietatis rex immense, eleison Kyrie eleison Noxas omnes nostras pelle, eleison Kyrie eleison Christe qui lux es mundi dator vitae, eleison Christe eleison Arte laesos daemonis intuere, eleison Christe eleison Conservans te credentes confirmansque, eleison Christe eleison Deum scimus unum atque trinum esse, eleison Kyrie eleison Patrem tuum teque flamen utrorumque, eleison Kyrie eleison Clemens nobis adsis paraclite ut vivamus in te, eleison Kyrie eleison