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Visions from the Book
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- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- Latin, French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
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- Publication
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- [Germany] : Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ; New York, NY : Distributed by BMG Music, [1996]
- ℗1996
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- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm35803850
- Credits
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- Sequentia ; Sons of Thunder ; Barbara Thornton, voice ; Elizabeth Gaver, medieval fiddles ; Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby, conductors
- "Medieval biblical hero-stories, laments and meditations."
- Program notes and texts with English translations (38 p.) inserted in container.
- Compact disc.
- Recorded at the Campion Center, Weston, Mass., Nov. 13-17, 1994.
- Sung in Latin or Old French.
- Samson dux fortissime : the lai of Samson and Delilah / Anonymous, from Reading Abbey (10:51) -- A deserto veniens : the destruction of Job's house, 2 part conductus / Anonymous, from Notre-Dame de Paris (3:42) -- Dolorum solatium : the lament (planctus) of David on the deaths of Saul and Jonathan / Peter Abaelard (12:47) -- Liber generationis : the genealogy of Christ / Anonymous, from an Augustinian monastic songbook, Bavaria (7:38) -- S'onques hom en liu s'asist : the courtly "lai of the Old and New Testaments" / Ernoul de Gastinois (21:23) -- Omnis caro peccaverat : the lai of Noah and the flood / Anonymous, from the Dublin Troper (8:04) -- Syon egredere nunc de cubilibus : dance-lai in praise of the Virgin Mary / Anonymous, from an Augustinian monastic songbook, Bavaria ; based on a leich by Tannhäuser (8:40)