Communion: Viderunt Omnes Fines Terre Salutare Dei Nostri

chant of the Church of Rome, one of the oldest repertories of which traces have remained in the collective memory of mankind. Up to the thirteenth century this repertory accompanied the papal liturgy. It disappeared with the installation of the papacy in Avignon, and sank into oblivion. Rediscovered in the early twentieth century, it aroused little enthusiasm among musicians, and only began to be studied properly, first from the liturgical, then from the musicological perspective, in the ...
Author: micrologus2; Tags: Chants de lEglise Rome Ensemble Organum Marcel Pérès Picture detail of mosaic from the Santa Maria Cosmedin


















