Melody for Membra DNJC (Salve Mundi Salutare/Salve Saput Cruentatum)
  • gcasa
    Posts: 17
    Hi,
    does anyone have a tune or a gregorian melody (the best would be if there is an original one - meter: 8.8.8.8.8) for the Saint Bernards or Arnulph of Leuvens oratio rhytmica Ad membri DNJC? One of its parts - Salve Caput Cruentatum is taken for the hymn O Sacred Head Surrounded.
    The full text is here:
    http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/Arnulfus/arn_memb.html
  • Steve CollinsSteve Collins
    Posts: 1,022
    The English Hymnal (1935) has a tune, Etona, that is 88.88.88.88.88. that might work. Songs of Praise (Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams) has three hymn tunes, Ich fahr dahin, O jesulien suss, and Was Gott thut (Pachelbel) that are 88.888. that might also work. I can scan them if you like.
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  • gcasa
    Posts: 17
    That would be great. Thanks.
  • Steve CollinsSteve Collins
    Posts: 1,022
    Here you go. While these hymnals might still be under copyright, the hymns themselves are much older.
    Hymntune-Etona.pdf
    80K
    Hymntune-IchFahrDahin.pdf
    52K
    Hymntune-OJesuleinSuus.pdf
    47K
    Hymntune-Pachelbel.pdf
    50K
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  • ronkrisman
    Posts: 1,393
    Unfortunately none of the tunes work with the text. The tunes are, for the most part, designed for 8-syllable iambic meter. But the text has a very unusual meter: 4 lines of 8 syllables each in trochaic meter, followed by one line of 8 syllables iambic; and those five lines are doubled.
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  • gcasa
    Posts: 17
    @ronkisman
    I have translated it in my native language all in the iambic Tetrameter soit could actually work.
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