I'm looking for super ethereal Latin texts for a new choral piece. Anyone want to make suggestions?
2006-12-04 16:24:21 · 4 answers · asked by Philip 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Check out Carmina Burana, Carl Orff did an orchestration of it.
oh, oh, oh
tortus floreo
iam amore...
2006-12-04 16:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by sudonym x 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try your nearest Roman Catholic churches or marian and St Pauls bookstores.
They would have some texts of a solemn high mass all in latin.
What is a high mass? High Mass -- (a solemn and elaborate Mass with music
The songs may have Gregorian chanting. When sung with a lot of voices at the back of the church , its beautiful, Do not however, do too much chanting or people may fall asleep.
Im not sure about mysterious but music such as Franz Joseph Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass (Missa in Angustiis) for chorus and orchestra, motets by Guerrero, Telemann, and Palestrina all sound ethereal.
2006-12-05 00:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Visit the web site below for the whole of the Bible in St. Jerome's Latin. Here's Revelations 1:14, for example :-
"caput autem eius et capilli erant candidi tamquam lana alba tamquam nix et oculi eius velut flamma ignis"
You should find some pretty weird-sounding stuff in Job, Daniel, or the rest of Revelations. It's all indexed and easy to find.
2006-12-05 07:43:10 · answer #3 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about:
Kyrie Eleyson
(It’s certainly not Latin)
2006-12-05 09:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋