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Capital: Capital 1 - Choir (Cluny)

Building Name
:
Cluny  
Location
:
Choir
Capital
:
1
Subject
:
tones of plain chant
Description
:
Ambulatory Capitals are no longer in situ but have been attributed to the ambulatory. Currently housed in Musée Farinier. Two capitals are inscribed and are thought to have occupied the 8th and 9th columns when turning from left to right in the ambulatory
Reference
:
See K. Meyer article, "The Eight Gregorian Modes of the Cluny Capitals," AB 34.
Corpus Ref.
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vol. 19, Jura, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, 92-93
  
  •   Each face contains a sculpted male figure within a mandorla. The text is inscribed on the base of the mandorla (ca. 1st quarter 12th century)… - 1 - Choir
    Face: Each face contains a sculpted male figure within a mandorla. The text is inscribed on the base of the mandorla (ca. 1st quarter 12th century)
    Inscription: 1st tone: HIC TONUS ORDITUR MODULAMINA MUSICA PRIMUS 2nd tone: SUBSEQU[ITU]R PTONGUS NUMERO VEL LEGE SECUNDUS 3rd tone: TERTIUS IMPIGIT CHRISTUMQUE RESURGER FINGIT 4th tone: SUCCEDIT QUARTUS SIMULANS IN CARMINE PLANCTUS
    Translation The first tone organizes musical harmonies The one who follows is the second by number or law The third celebrates and depicts Christ's resurrection The fourth follows imitating mourning in song
  •   Text is inscribed on a band across the middle of each face - 1 - Choir
    Face: Text is inscribed on a band across the middle of each face
    Inscription: 1st tone: HIC TONUS ORDITUR MODULAMINA MUSICA PRIMUS ; 2nd tone: SUBSEQU[ITU]R PTONGUS NUMERO VEL LEGE SECUNDUS; 3rd tone: TERTIUS IMPIGIT CHRISTUMQUE RESURGER FINGIT; 4th tone: SUCCEDIT QUARTUS SIMULANS IN CARMINE PLANCTUS
    Translation The first tone organizes musical harmonies The one who follows is the second by number or law The third celebrates and depicts Christ's resurrection The fourth follows imitating mourning in song
  •   Text is inscribed on a band across the middle of each face - 1 - Choir
    Face: Text is inscribed on a band across the middle of each face
    Inscription: 5th tone: OSTENDIT QUINTUS QUAM SIT QUISQ[U]IS TUMET IMUS; 6th tone: SI CUPIS AFFECTUM PIETATIS RESPICE SEXTUM; 7th tone: INSINUAT FLATU[M] CU[M] DONIS SEPTIMUS ALMUM; 8th tone: OCTAVUS SANCTOS OMNES DOCET ESSE BEATOS
    Translation The fifth shows how each treble swells If you desire to prepare your soul to piety consider the sixth [tone] The seventh penetrates the breath of the Spirit and its gifts The eighth leads all the saints to bliss
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