He many times makes the tonic accents of the words using unprepared dissonances rather than actual accents.......its so delicate and masterful. The last gloriOsa before the B section, is so painful....what an amazing, glorioso and generoso composer!
This is AMAZING!!!!! I LOVE AVE GENEROSA!!!!!! Alto 2s are the best tho lol I am always so sad when I hear this piece because I want to sing it with a choir again 😭😭😭
I remember the day this was released, my friend and I were fangirling over it, in music theory class of course lol, and now we get to sing it for TMEA!! So exciting! Such a stunningly gorgeous piece.
Mr. Ola Gjeilo... this song makes my heart swell every time I hear it!!! And it was SO amazing to meet you in Denver last fall. Ever your fan, Benjamin 😊🎶
For Texas music educators association? I never made it in jh nor did I ever make it past district in hs but I made it to the two year college all state choir my freshman year of college (for the 100th tmea convention, no less).
Ave Generosa 1. Ave generosa gloriosa et intacta puella, tu pupilla castitatis, tu materia sanctitatis, que Deo placuit. 2. Nam hec superna infusio in te fuit, quod supernum Verbum in te carnem induit. 3. Tu candidum lilium quod Deus ante omnem creaturam inspexit. 4. O pulcherrima et dulcissima, quam valde Deus in te delectabatur, cum amplexionem caloris sui in te posuit, ita quod Filius eius de te lactatus est. 5. Venter enim tuus gaudium habuit cum omnis celestis symphonia de te sonuit, quia virgo Filium Dei portasti, ubi castitas tua in Deo claruit. 6. Viscera tua gaudium habuerunt sicut gramen super quod ros cadit cum ei viriditatem infundit, ut et in te factum est, O mater omnis gaudii. 7. Nunc omnis ecclesia in gaudio rutilet ac in symphonia sonet propter dulcissimam Virginem et laudabilem Mariam, Dei Genitricem. Amen.
I'm in a strange blocked period where no music seems really to fit with my mood, but somehow the music of Gjeilo resonates with me and perhaps even with our time. It has a certain melancholic fin de siècle feeling but it offers always hope at the same time.
can't believe it's almost been six years since this pieces has been out 😭 I remember being obsessed with this when this was part of the TMEA selections!! I memorized every single part LMAO
I am not a Catholic and at our church Mary doesn't play such a great role like at in the Roman Catholic church. I am a protestant and also for our Christians is Mary the mother of Jesus, but more humanly descripted. Another thing: this music is wonderful and wonderfully interpreted by a wonderful choir with angel-like voices. Thank you very much!
Sydney Moore I'm sorry I didn't respond in time to meet you this week. Amazing job in the concert yesterday, though. It was such a fantastic and unforgettable experience. We'll all always be Pearl's Texas Girls💕
ours did too! we so desperately tried to churn this out before state contest... we dropped it TWO DAYS before contest and sang something from the holiday performance
@@paytendavis2042 Omg that sounds so stressful lmao. Luckily the concert we sang this at was just our fall concert so we were able to just power through it.
Wow! I now discovered your music Mr Gjeilo! It’s stunningly beautiful like the old masterpieces that saved church music for the world some centuries ago and one is immediately in transferred to heaven! Is it possible to buy the sheets somewhere? I would like to study some of it as I’m a Soprano and sing regularly sing during holy masses.
What a gorgeous piece. This was done for tmea in 2017. Too bad I never made it past district in hs (but I made it to tmea in community college for the 100th tmea convention)
The ⟨g⟩ was hard on purpose. 😉 In the traditional German pronunciation of Latin (as opposed e.g. to the traditional Italian pronunciation, a.k.a. Church Latin) the letter ⟨g⟩ is hard even before ⟨e⟩. This choice is very much appropriate, since both the choir is German and the lyrics are by saint Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess from the 12th century.
The pronunciation of the hard G is that of classical Latin...the proninciation changed during the Middle Ages and it is the one we are taught at school...
@@mbalicki I'm afraid you are wrong. Here we have to deal with the rules of Church Latin. That the lyrics are from Saint Hildegard von Bingen does not matter. Listen to the original Ave generosa from Hildegard: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lbg4TSP44yU.html and you will hear right in the beginning DZJénérosa.
so saying Generosa is it like with the “G” sound or with the “J” sound? i’m doing this for All-State and i just want to be sure i get it right because on here i hear the “G” sound but on the track i got they sing the “J” sound for Generosa.
Hi! That's up to the performers; the particular choir in this video is German and used German Latin pronunciations, but in America it'd almost always be Italian Latin I think :)
Not quite. This is a text of Hildegard von Bingen and she was german. There is not such thing as "correct pronunciation" for latin. Off course, it will sound weird Monteverdi in latin with german accent, but when it comes to contemporary music, not really
Dear Mr. Gjeilo, where do I find the sheet music for this song for our small Catholic choir in Alhambra CA. Do we need permission to sing at a Sunday Mass? I am mesmerized by this piece and knowing the story of the nun , Sister Hildegard who wrote the text, it is even more inspiring. I sing Alto and am most anxious to get this to our Choir director. She also teaches High School to some very talented singers.
Beautiful piece and well sung but.... Why isn't this song in D if almost all the F's and C's are sharped??? Sincerely, a frusturated solfege user Update: Oh I see it shifts down later but even still why didn't they at least start it in D
Ola Gjeilo, as the composer how do you prefer the "g" to sound? There are literally thousands and thousands of young ladies starting to work on this piece for All State. It would be cool to know how you hear it when it plays in your mind.
This SSAA version is absolutely beautiful and perfectly matches the original version (Hildegard von Bingen wrote originally for women's voices only). But... why singing "generosa" that way... because, if I know some generous people, I am afraid I didn't know many guenerous ones ! Strange ! Perhaps the choirs tries to mimic the way (they expect) german people of the time pronounced latin ??? Anyway... it's beautiful ! That is the most important !
They don’t “mimic” anything. 😉 It’s the traditional German pronunciation of Latin (as opposed e.g. to the traditional Italian pronunciation, a.k.a. Church Latin), where ⟨g⟩ is hard even before ⟨e⟩. This choice is very much appropriate, since both the choir is German and the lyrics are by saint Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess from the 12th century.
It depends in which system you're reading Latin - in German system it's the "g" like in 'galaxy' while in Franco-Italian it's like like "g" in "Germany". At least that's what I was teached at school.
Yes, in central European pronunciation, you'd pronounce "g" like in "galaxy", also "c" in coelum like "ts", in Italy it would me "ch" and in Germany it would be "k"... Latin is pronounced differently throughout and there is no one right pronunciation since we don't know how it was pronounced originally.
In the traditional German pronunciation of Latin ⟨g⟩ is always hard, even before ⟨e⟩. This pronunciation is very much appropriate in this recording, since both the choir is German and the lyrics are by saint Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess from the 12th century. 😉
@@A_T216: Very appropriate, since both the choir is German and the text is by saint Hildegard of Bingen, a German Benedictine abbess from the 12th century. 😊
hail thee, noble one 1. Hail, nobly born, hail, honored and inviolate, you Maiden are the piercing gaze of chastity, you the material of holiness- the one who pleasèd God. 2. For heaven’s flood poured into you as heaven’s Word was clothed in flesh in you. 3. You are the lily, gleaming white, upon which God has fixed his gaze before all else created. 4. O beautiful, O sweet! How deep is that delight that God received in you, when ‘round you he enwrapped his warm embrace, so that his Son was suckled at your breast. 5. Your womb rejoiced as from you sounded forth the whole celestial symphony. For as a virgin you have borne the Son of God- in God your chastity shone bright. 6. Your flesh rejoiced just as a blade of grass on which the dew has fall’n, viridity within it to infuse-just so it happened unto you, O mother of all joy! 7. So now in joy gleams all the Church like dawn, resounds in symphony because of you, the Virgin sweet and worthy of all praise, Maria, God’s mother. Amen.
