Here is the piece as it is given in Bruno Staeblein's Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, (vol I, p. 378:

C CD D D F E D C
Al-le- lu-ia, dul-ce car-men,

F G A GF G GA A
vox per-en-nis gau-di- i,

F G A G FE FGFF D CD
al-le-lu-ia laus su- a- vis

D F F D E D C
est cho-ris cael-es-ti-bus,


C CD D D E F G GFEDC
quod ca-nunt de-i man-en-tes


F F F C DEF ED C
in do-mo per sae- cu- la.

A couple of other melodies are also given for this text. Songs of Sion (1923), p. 46 givess a fifteenth-century chant melody for this text (in English).

Ah, yes, it's that time of year again. I'm having another Farewell to Alleluia party Saturday night - green cocktails, then vespers, then purple cocktails. It was a great success last year - highly recommended. For those interested, attached is First Vespers for Septuagesima. I've set Dulce Carmen to Alleluias of St James ("Let All Mortal Flesh"), but next year I might put the tune offered by Dr Mahrt (many thanks) into Meinrad & use that.

P.S. We dug up the "Alleluia" a few weeks after Easter last year. There had been some rain. Unfortunately only a partial resurrection can be reported. This year we'll seal the cylinder with wax.

Green - mojitos.

Purple: last year it was "Purple Passion" (vodka, grape, grapefruit & sugar) version. It lacked something, especially after those mojitos (there were encores for them even after vespers!: heresy, but out they came), so this year we're going for French Martinis (Chambord, Vodka and pineapple). For those with fructose intolerance, the purple cocktail will be Kir Royals (Chambord & Champagne, garnished with raspberry.) We tasted these latter in a trial on the weekend and were a bit disappointed. Maybe a more up-market champagne is the answer. More trials this week I suppose (sigh).

I suspect the Classic Purple Cocktail is yet to be invented...which is another reason why the Septuagesima "Burying of the Alleluia" urgently needs revival.

Dr Mahrt, I've attached a Meinraded version of Alleluia D.C. according to your post above. I'd be very grateful if you could check this to see if it's roughly right. (I've added a couple of dots at what seemed likely places.) Cheers.

The Kir Royales MUST have a large blackberry at the bottom of the glass. Looks so pretty! (Not sure available at this time of year,t ho') I love drinking these in the summer

Donna

Of at least academic interest may be this, J M Neale's utterly unaltered original taken from a friend's copy of the scarce-as-hen's-teeth Songs of Syon. The tune with which it appears is the same Urbs Beata fourth mode one used at St Meinrad's, which is tagged as being XV. century, from the Karlsruhe Bibliotek MS 368.

Alleluya, song of sweetness,
Voice of joy, eternal lay;
Alleluya is the anthem
Of the quires in heav'nly day,
Which the Angels sing, abiding
In the house of God alway.

Alleluya, thou resoundest,
Salem, Mother ever blest;
Alleluyas without ending
Fit yon place of gladsome rest:
Exiles we, by Babel's waters
Sit in bondage and distrest.

Alleluya we deserve not
Here to chaunt for evermore:
Alleluya our transgressions
Make us for a while give o'er;
For the holy time is coming,
Bidding us our sins deplore.

Trinity of endless glory,
Hear thy people as they cry;
Grant us all to keep thine Easter
In our home beyond the sky;
There to thee our Alleluya
Singing everlastingly.
- Anon., X. century
Tr., John Mason Neale

may try this celebration next year, thanks

green:
Stinger
Grasshopper

purple:
Black Magic sangria
or (since some people always insist that Septuagesima season is really violet) - one of the recipes using creme de violette.