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John Sheppard - Media vita in morte sumus (~1550) (McCreesh 2006)

John Sheppard - Media vita in morte sumus (~1550). Performed by the Gabrieli consort, conducted by Paul McCreesh. Recorded July 2006 at the Parish Church of S. Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, including the Compton organ (1961). Record label: Deutsche Grammophon. This video of classical music is solely for personal educational purposes. No copyright infringement intended. Videos are always incidental extracts from published works. If you like the music, please consider supporting the artist and the label by buying the music. Discover more lesser known classical gems at ‪@gorgeousclassicalunknown‬ . From Wikipedia: Media vita in morte sumus (Latin for "In the midst of life we are in death") is a Gregorian chant, known by its incipit, written in the form of a response, and known as "Antiphona pro Peccatis" or "de Morte". The most accepted source is a New Year's Eve religious service in the 1300s. Reference has been made to a source originating in a battle song of the year 912 by Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall, however, the Synod of Cologne declared in 1316 that no one should sing this without the prior permission of the residing bishop. In the York Breviary "Media vita" was sung as an antiphon at Compline on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare. In the Sarum Breviary it was the antiphon from the Third (Oculi) to the Fifth (Judica) Sundays of Lent, a position it also occupies (in reduced format) in the Dominican Rite. In addition to its uses in the liturgy, "Media vita" was sung as a hymn to ask God for aid in times of public need, and sometimes even as a sort of curse. In 1455 a group of nuns in Wennigsen, resisting the attempt of the Augustinian canon Johannes Busch and Duke William of Brunswick to reform their house, "lay down on their bellies in the choir with the arms and legs stretched out in the form of a cross, and bawled all through, at the top of their voices, the anthem "In the midst of life we are in death" ... Wherefore the Duke was afraid, and feared lest his whole land should go to ruin." Busch assured the Duke that no harm could come from the chant, so he responded to the nuns: "How were ye not afraid to sing the anthem "Media vita" over me? I stretch my fingers to God's holy gospels, and swear that ye must reform yourselves, or I will not suffer you in my land." In the Ambrosian Rite, "Media vita" was said with the Litany of the Saints on the Tuesday before Christmas, the Wednesday before Palm Sunday, and the Greater Rogation on 25 April.