Media Vita

Submitted by Nicholas.Trandem on Tue, 2009/10/06 - 1:33pm
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ID: 
33
Composer: 
Bl. Notker the Stammerer (d. 912)
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
For the Offertory
For the Communion of the Faithful
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Quadragesima (Lent)
Votive: 
F
Composition Type: 
Responsory
Texture: 
Monophonic
Language: 
Latin
Voices: 
Unison
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Musical Style: 
Gregorian

During Lent some beautiful pieces of Dominican chant are sung in the office of Compline. One of these is the responsory 'Media Vita' (which is said to have moved St Thomas Aquinas to tears).

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