Talk:Rorate caeli (introit) (Gregorian chant)

Merge?

I can't view the Abel DiMarco editions despite having downloaded the Finale Viewer plugin and Finale Reader. Can someone check if they're the same chant? If so, we should merge the two score pages under whatever the preferred spelling is and create a redurect for the alternate spelling. The [Rorate_caeli_desuper_(Gregorian_chant)] page has add'l lyrics. Also, I think Unison is hte preferred category since there is no doctrinal reason that the change must be sung by only a tenor or only a soprano as far as I know. --Vaarky 22:04, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

They are different chants - removing the merge suggestion. --Bobnotts talk 08:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

This still leaves the disambiguation issue. Not being able to use Finale viewer either (has anyone nagged Abel about pdf's?) I ask confirmation that this is indeed the introit on p 320 of the LU (do-re-r-la-flat-l, lddl-ls-asd-dsdrdr-rd)? From the text, it would appear neither to use the Advent IV verse ("coeli enarant") nor the Saturday Votive mass verse ("Benedixisti").

The other piece, Rorate coeli (Gregorian chant), is the old Anglican lessons & carols 'Advent Prose' "Drop down ye heavens from above", using only the first half of the antiphon text with verses from Isa. My oldest source is Athelstan Riley's A Collection of Faux-bourdons and Descants (1916) Richard Mix 06:21, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

(This got sorted out on Bob's talk page)

Leftover verses

I'm not sure where these belong: Richard Mix 00:28, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

2. Qui cúncta cúmples Númine,
nóstros te in ártus cólligis:
ut nos redúcas ad Déum,
descéndis in térram, Déus.

3. Vérbum quod ánte saécula
sinu paterno násceris,
récens hómo sub témpore
et Vírgine pródis sínu.