Dialogos CD Terra Adriatica: Italian & Croatian Medieval Sacred Music CHANTS

Description: This program, dedicated to Italian and Croatian cultures, could be labeled at first sight as a musical « diptych ». Yet, under a closer look, it appears to be a vast mosaic. Both countries offer still largely untapped resources to new discoveries: Italy, with its many liturgical traditions, and Croatia, torn between its own Slavic roots and Germanic and Italian influences. The root of this program is the meeting of traditions from both shores of the Adriatic, in Latin and vernacular tongues, reflecting both the learned and more popular traditions. Terra Adriatica highlights liturgical pieces in Latin, from plainsong in various local “dialects” to a whole range of polyphonies. The musical language of these polyphonies is sometimes primitive, stemming from folk music traditions, sometimes more elaborate, in the style of the Notre Dame School. The other aspect of liturgical music from these areas underlined here is the sheer fervor of the popular devotion, shown through the pieces in the vernacular tongue. We hear songs from the Glagolitic liturgical repertory of the Croatian coast. This repertory had its origins in Roman Catholic rite, but during the Middle Ages, it was sung in the vernacular, and was preserved in writing, often without any musical notation, using the Glagolitic alphabet specific to medieval Croatia. On the other side of the Adriatic, Italian confraternities were singing laude spirituali. One of the first written testimonies to this practice is a manuscript stemming from the late 13th century, the Laudario di Cortona. The imagery of these chants always centers on a few “leitmotivs”: the Virgin of the laudes seems closer in spirit to the peasant women who have lost their sons at sea than to the pale and fragile young ladies holding the infant Jesus on the frescoes of the trecento. The musical expression of popular faith is not so different in present-day Italy and Croatia. Contemporary processional songs heard during Holy Week bear testimony to the power of oral transmission, thus bridging the gap between our modern practice and that of our medieval forbears. Recorded in November 1998 at the church of Lignières, France, by Maurice Salaun This first recording by Dialogos was a discovery of Croatian medieval sacred music and relations between the learned and traditional music of the two coasts of the Adriatic Sea. 1. Litanije Lauretanske Glagolitic chant from Poljica, province of Split, Croatia 2. Sanctus. Hosanna dulcis est cantica Cartulary of St Mary, Zadar, 13th c. 3. Plač Jeremije proroka Jeremiah's Lamentation; glagolitic chant from Poljica 4. Puče moj Popule meus; glagolitic chant from Poljica 5. Pokoj vječni Requiem aeternam; glagolitic chant from Poljica, accompanied by a glagolitic apocryphe Kako bratja prodaše Osipa, Oxford, Bodlean library, MS. Can. lit. 414, 15th c. 6. Dixit Isaac patri suo Gregorian responsory; Monte Cassino, Ms. 542, 12th c. 7. Annuntiamus caritatem Announce of the movable feasts; Evangeliarium, Osor, 11th c. – Biblioteca Vaticana, Borg. lat. 339 8. Caminus ardebat Gregorian antiphon; Monte Cassino, Archivio della Badia, ms. 542, 13th c. 9. Summe rex Troped Kyrie; Assisi, Bibl. municipale, Ms. 695, 13th c. 10. Liber Generationis secundum Matthaeum Polyphonic reading; Zagreb, Antiphonaire de O. Thuz, 15th c., Biblioteca Metropolitana, MR 10 11. Credo Bologna, Civico Museo Musicale, Ms. Q 11, 14th c. 12. Ave donna santissima Laudario di Cortona, 13th c. 13. Magdalene javkanje Traditional lauda, Mala Subotica, Croatia 14. Magdalena degna da laudare Laudario di Cortona, 13th c. 15. Laude novella sia cantata Laudario di Cortona, Cortona, Biblioteca comunale, ms. 91, 13th c.

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