Monday, March 18, 2024

for palm sunday-art & hymnology


john constable
1776-1837
A Donkey, 1816
oil on panel
9 3/4 x 12 inches
private collection, uk
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latin hymn
gloria, laus et honor
all glory, laud and honor
theodulf of orléans, 820
written while imprisoned at the monastery of angers
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though befriended by charlemagne,
upon charles the great's death, his son and successor-louis the pious, ever suspicious and paranoid of being overthrown imprisoned the bishop of orléans
[it has been told (clichtoveus) that later, louis, whelmed with regret, released theodulf after hearing, in his cell, the bishop's worship and chanting of the hymn.  though a moving tale, it is most likely an apocryphal one]
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hymn translated by john mason neale
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music written circa 1613 by melchior teschner, a cantor in the german lutheran church
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:johann sebastian bach later took use of teschner's tune:
originally for herberger's
valet will ich dir geben
for use in his oratorio
passio secundum joannem
for the occasion of Good Friday

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