Melody for Membra DNJC (Salve Mundi Salutare/Salve Saput Cruentatum)

gcasa

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 Collins

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.

gcasa

That would be great. Thanks.

Steve Collins

Here you go. While these hymnals might still be under copyright, the hymns themselves are much older.

ronkrisman

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.

gcasa

@ronkisman
I have translated it in my native language all in the iambic Tetrameter soit could actually work.

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