tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post112003950782196874..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Do, Re, Me.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1127740495190988952005-09-26T14:14:00.000+01:002005-09-26T14:14:00.000+01:00Pliable, what a joyful way to begin a Monday morni...Pliable, what a joyful way to begin a Monday morning! Thanks a million!<BR/><BR/>Here is the acrostic poem on <B> Ut re mi fa so la</B> that Josquin des Prez (ca 1440/50 - 1521) set to music as a motet -- his <B>Ut Phebi radiis</B> . Here the scale degrees describe the mythological text, but also symbolize the <I>scala celestis</I> by both ascending and descending:<BR/><BR/>I<BR/>Ut Phebi radiis soror obvia sidera luna,<BR/>Ut reges Salomon sapientis nomine cunctos,<BR/>Ut remi ponthum querentum velleris aurum,<BR/>Ut remi faber instar habens super aera pennas,<BR/>Ut remi fas solvaces traducere merces,<BR/><B>Ut remi fas sola</B> Petri currere prora,<BR/>Sic super omne quod est regnas, O Virgo Maria.<BR/>II<BR/>Latius in numerum canit id quoque celica turba,<BR/>Lasso lege ferens eterna munera mundo:<BR/>La sol fa ta mina clara prelustris in umbra,<BR/>La sol fa mi ta na de matre recentior ortus,<BR/>La sol fa mi re ta quidem na non violata,<BR/><B>La sol fa mi re ut</B> rore ta na Gedeon quo,<BR/>Rex, O Christe Jesu, nostri Deus alte memento.<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>And here is the link to the full score to Josquin's motet <B>Ut Phebi radiis</B>:<BR/><BR/>http://www.musik.ku.dk/publikationer/noder-pdf/Josquin%20Ut%20Phebi.pdfGarth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1127674989319646952005-09-25T20:03:00.000+01:002005-09-25T20:03:00.000+01:00Awesome, i learn something new every day. now i kn...Awesome, i learn something new every day. now i know.M. Keiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371756348134460552noreply@blogger.com