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[EstimatedProphet]

Let's have a round of Dies Irae!

Dies irae
dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla:
Teste David cum Sybilla.
Quantus tremor est futurus
Quando judex est venturus
Cuncta stricte discussurus!
Dies irae
dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla:
Teste David cum Sybilla
Quantus tremor est futurus
Quatdo judex est venturus
Cuncta stricte discussurus!
Quantus tremor est futurus
Dies irae, dies illa
Quantus tremor est futurus
Dies irae, dies illa
Quantus tremor est futurus
Quantus tremor est futurus
Quando judex est venturus
Cuncta stricte discussurus
Cuncta stricte
Cuncta stricte
Stricte discussurus
Cuncta stricte
Cuncta stricte
Stricte discussurus!

[Shine]

1. You like chanting, don't you?

;)

you mentioned in one of last night's threads about the monks chanting with the sand mandalas....

Have you done much Gregorian chanting, yourself? I suppose it would be quite meditative...

[EstimatedProphet]

3. I have to admit, they can be meditative

I don't do it myself. Wrong acoustics here. I guess you need a monastery...

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Before RevCheesehead beats me to it...

Pie iesu domine

Bonk!

Dona eis requiem

Bonk!





Edit: My Latin sucks. :blush:

[RevCheesehead]

5. tsk, tsk....

you forgot the sound link:

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_sounds/hg/monks.wav

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I've had little success in copying such links

Usually when I open them they open in a pop-up, so there's no link. :shrug:

[RevCheesehead]

8. just copy the link itself on the page

where it says "monk.wav" - it's a direct link.
Your real player should pop up.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Oh, crap

I haven't been going to that site for sounds. :blush:

[RevCheesehead]

10. What were you doing?

Making armpit noises again? :spank:


:think: I know! It's the Spam, isn't it? :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Silly

You don't put Spam under your arms to make noises. :eyes:









You put it between your thighs.

[RevCheesehead]

12. ........

:spray: :rofl:



you mean, like a Spam tampon?? :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Gasp!

Don'cha think they'd work much better as pads? :shrug:



Cut a coupla li'l Spam wings on 'em, maybe...

[tjwmason]

4. When done well there's nothing quite so wonderful

But it is often massacred when sung by the major English choral foundations because they're too used to the greater formalism of Anglican chant.

The Dies Irae melody is also incredibly haunting - though of course it's not technically Gregorian chant, because it was written by Thomas of Celano who was long after Pope Gregory the Great. But that's just me being pernickety.

[kwassa]

6. We are singing the same lyrics, but Mozart wrote the tune!

The Mozart Requiem, of course.

A real blaster of piece, very un-Gregorian.