#Canticorum

[drawmaus]

Senior Field Enginseer Csépán Uventa. Newly promoted to their position in the Canticorum 9th Ironsides Regiment "Grayline" following a decade's service. Notably, the typical working robes of the enginseer have been supplemented with protective garments from the host regiment.

Personal work, ended up finding out how quickly I could actually render this out to an acceptable level of finish.

[turangalila]

Dominique Vellard (*1953) Cantique 1, Pour Ténor Et Basse de Viole (2005-2006)

– Prélude 3 – Egredimini filiæ Sion

Egredimini filiae Sion, sponsae Dei altissimi. Vosque omnes festinanter a virtute, filiae Jerusalem. Et videte sponsum Christum candicum et rubicundum ex milibus electum, in cujus thalamo sanctorum canit numerus angelorum, exultat chorus omnium supernorum coelestium civium, ac virtutum sane divertatur psallentium exercitus. Modi loquitur cuique vestrum: surge propera, amica mea, columba mea, formosa mea, et veni. In foraminibus petrae, in caverna maceriae ostende mihi faciem tuam, sonet vox tua in auribus meis. Favus distilans labia tua sponsa, mel et lac sub lingua tua. Veni de Libano, sponsa, coronaberis.

Dominique Vellard – Cantica Sacra Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard. (2015, Evidence – EVCD009)

[postpunkindustrial]

Krzysztof Penderecki – Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima / Canticum Canticorum Salomonis / De Natura Sonoris Nos. 1 & 2

Halloween Season: Atonal Shrieking Ambiance

You heard his music in The Shining. Get it from my Google Drive HERE

[justforbooks]

Alexander Knaifel

Russian composer whose sparse musical landscapes create a spiritual ambience of meditative calm

Alexander Knaifel, who has died aged 80, did not set out to be a composer. As a student in the 1960s, he studied the cello with Mstislav Rostropovich until injury intervened. Then he redirected his energies towards composition, at a time when the Khrushchev thaw could accommodate the musical modernism of the Soviet Union’s second avant-garde period (the first having come in the years around the 1917 revolution).

But the cello retained a significant role in Knaifel’s output. Rostropovich went on to commission and premiere three religious works that reflected both Knaifel’s adoption of Russian Orthodox Christianity around 1970 and his conviction, which appealed to Rostropovich, that experience can be heightened by performers thinking – “silently intoning” – a text as they playe the music.

Chapter Eight – Canticum Canticorum (The Song of Songs, 1993), a work “for church, choirs and cello”, unfolds slowly over the course of an hour. With three a cappella choirs adopting a cross formation in Washington National Cathedral in the US, the premiere was recorded for the Teldec label and released under the title Make Me Drunk With Your Kisses (1995).

The Fiftieth Psalm (1995) is for solo cello. Psalm 50 in the Orthodox numbering is Psalm 51 in the west: Miserere/Have Mercy. With his concern for “playing as if singing”, Knaifel felt that “only Rostropovich could articulate this text”, and his recording of it was released on the ECM label in 2005.

Blazhenstva (1996) is a meditation on the Beatitudes, Jesus Christ’s sermon on the mount. Rostropovich’s last cello student, Ivan Monighetti, later recorded it with Knaifel’s wife, Tatiana Melentieva, as the soprano soloist with the State Hermitage Orchestra from St Petersburg for another ECM release.

That 2008 recording also features Monighetti playing a piece in the modernist style that preceded Knaifel’s more ethereal approach, his Lamento for Solo Cello (1967, revised 1986). Built upon serialist tone rows, and with a striking approach to timbre and performance techniques, it is also highly expressive.

From the same period came his Monody for Female Voice (1968), again written in a modernist style, with modal phrases juxtaposed with glissandi descending in quarter-tones and wide intervals. Premiered by Melentieva, it was written with her crystal-clear tone and extensive vocal range in mind.

Knaifel first made his mark with the opera The Canterville Ghost, given a semi-staged student production in 1966, at the end of his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory. Based upon the humorous ghost story by Oscar Wilde, it was taken up by the Kirov Orchestra under Alexander Gauk in Leningrad in 1974 and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky in London in 1980. A 1990 recording with Michail Jurowski directing the Moscow Forum Theatre, reissued on Brilliant Classics in 2012, brings out the young composer’s confident delivery of musical humour and mastery of orchestration.

In Knaifel’s more ascetic and contemplative works, solo lines and single sustained pitches are spun out over long durations – sometimes over the course of two hours – almost to the point of stasis. In the more minimalist language of what he called his “quiet giants”, he was ahead, among Soviet composers, of either Giya Kancheli or Arvo Pärt, in presenting pared-down content that is rich in spiritual ambience. There is no obvious parallel to Knaifel’s music in the west, although it bears some similarity in style to that of the American composer Morton Feldman.

Of two large-scale works from the 1970s, Knaifel said: “In Jeanne, I discovered the number, in Nika, the word.” He reworked a Joan of Arc ballet into Jeanne, Passion for 13 Instrumental Groups (1978), a work of extreme asceticism drawing on the principle that the universe is built on numbers and proportions with rational and symbolic power, while Nika, 72 Fragments for 17 Performers on Bass Instruments (1974), was the first of his works to use unspoken texts.

Agnus Dei for Four Instrumentalists A Cappella (1985), with a characteristically paradoxical title, is powerful in impact given its sparse musical landscape and the sense of meditation that this creates. It utilises a wide range of literary examples, ranging from the liturgical to quotations from the diary of a young girl, Tanya Savicheva, who died during the siege of Leningrad.

These texts, printed in the score as well as in the audience’s programme notes, are never heard in performance, with the musicians being instructed to “think the text” as they play. Knaifel maintained that the word does not needed to be explicitly stated for the work’s spiritual intention to be understood.

His compositions of the 1990s and beyond increasingly displayed a religious aesthetic and an even more ascetic musical language. Texts both secular and sacred were present, but, in line with the Gnostic tradition, Knaifel asserted that “truth” must be hidden and revealed gradually to the listener in order for it to have validity.

This approach found its fullest and most original expression in In Air Clear and Unseen (1994), for texts by Fyodor Tyutchev, piano and string quartet, with its extremes of register, periods of silence, silent intonation, religious symbolism and virtuosic performance techniques. A recording by the pianist Oleg Malov and the Keller Quartet was released on ECM in 2002.

Knaifel’s opera Alice in Wonderland, premiered in Amsterdam in 2001 with a cast including the baritone Roderick Williams, has a libretto based upon Lewis Carroll’s narrative. But the text is rarely sung, instead being either mimed, or even in a few instances, coded visually, through coloured lights playing on a backdrop on stage.

Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Alexander was the son of Russian-Jewish parents: his father, Aron Knaifel, a violinist, and his mother, Muza Shapiro, a music theory teacher, had been evacuated from Leningrad at the time of the siege. From the Leningrad Central Music School (1950-61) he went on to the Moscow Conservatory, where his cello studies under Rostropovich were ended by a nerve inflammation in his left hand. At the Leningrad Conservatory (1963-67) he studied composition with Boris Aparov, a student of Shostakovich.

In 1979, Knaifel was blacklisted by the Soviet authorities as one of the “Khrennikov Seven”, including Edison Denisov and Sofia Gubaidulina, following the premiere in Cologne of his improvised piece A Prima Vista (1972), attracting the ire of Tikhon Khrennikov, leader of the Union of Composers of the USSR.

Knaifel turned his attention to writing film scores, written in a more conventional idiom. There were 40 in all, including those written for his frequent collaborator, the Russian director Semyon Aranovich.

Working with the composer on preparing a number of written texts for publication led me to appreciate his childlike sense of wonder alongside his warmth and playful sense of humour. This sense of a child’s world was apparent in both the Alice opera and its predecessor, the surrealist song cycle A Silly Horse (1981), of which a recording by Melentieva and Malov was reissued on the Megadisc label in 1997.

Knaifel married Melentieva in 1965. She survives him, along with a daughter and a grandson. 

🔔 Alexander Aronovich Knaifel, composer, born 28 November 1943; died 27 June 2024

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[maristane]

Dracanticorum 1 - Lyrefex, the Red

We can't be sure how plagiarism algorithms will reshape creative careers in the next few years as the internet becomes an ocean of spam. I sometimes think what would I do, what would be my "Swan Song" if I had to abandon the life I've built. This expression refers to an ancient, but false, belief that swans sing a beautiful song just before they die, it means a final gesture or performance before retirement or death.

To which I say "screw that". I won't go down anytime soon and when I do I'll be roaring and spitting fire. Singing a Dragon's Song. "Canticorum" means "songs" in latin. It's the Year of the Dragon and to celebrate it I'll be finishing the sketches I made in the "Smaugust" challenge in 2019, in my own time, my own terms, possibly during way more than one year, for no reason other than I love drawing dragons. Here is the first one. I hope it inspires you to keep creating too! Timelapse:

[robbyrobinson]

Tomo-chan Is A Girl (Review)

Tomo-chan Is A Girl *regards a tomboy named Tomo Aizawa as she tries to confess to her childhood best friend Junichirou "Jun" Kubota by trying to be more "girly."

The characters are all likable with their own quirks. Tomo herself is an adorable character who often ends up beating up Jun whenever he tends to misinterpret her actions, but she is also a loyal friend who would fiercely protect her friends leading to some of the most awesome moments of the show. Her trying to be more "girly" is also admirable, showing that she is not just a tough girl, but she was also interested in girlish things like affectionately hugging her friends.

Jun himself does display that he does love Tomo the way that she was developing a crush on him, but you get the sense that he is trying to make himself stronger in order to feel "worthy" of her. We get that aspect often through flashbacks to how they first met and how he was easily picked on a lot. But, of course, his misunderstandings often end with him fighting Tomo.

Miszuzu Gundou can best be described as that stoic friend you'd have in your group who seems to really only emote by inconveniencing the other friends by trolling them. Misuzu is borderline "evil" and a dark person to be around. She often has a rivalry with Jun due to how they both dated for a short amount of time and the latter beat her to the punch by ending the relationship. Really, it seems that she does what she does out of amusement such as how she'd get kicks out of getting an arise from Jun. But despite her trollish ways, she does care about her friends almost to the point she seemed too attached to Tomo of course not in "that" way but more because they had been friends for years. However, she does often chip in with making Tomo look cuter.

But by far the best character in the show is Carol "Princess" Olston. Not gonna lie, when I first saw her, I thought she would be annoying, but she is actually probably the unit of the show. I don't know if she is either an airhead or secretly a genius. Every scene she is in is simply hilarious. It is hard to say. There's her lending Tomo her headband and then reclaiming it while humming Canticorum Jubilo. The fact that they stop the plot of the episode to let Carol hum her "homecoming" song without any breaks makes it funnier.

Or there's her getting Jun to train her in a fight with Tomo but she could barely do any of the exercises. Or that time she actually scored higher in math than Misuzu. How about when she nonchalantly tased a guy while keeping that happy smile on her face? She even gave Tomo a bar of gold for her birthday. How can I get a friend like that?

Of course, what makes Carol so good is how she bounces off Miszuz due to being her polar opposite. There are times when Misuzu tries to antagonize her, but Carol often deflects that leading to the implication that her bubbly attitude is either completely fabricated, or a small part of it exists.

The supporting cast of characters is also great, but that would be going into a whole new territory by explaining what makes them good.

The voice acting is great as are the opening and ending themes. Ultimately a great time with episode 8 going into more character development.

= 8.7/10

[grupo-enmascarada-carnaval]

Éstos son algunos momentos de la actuación del pasado sábado de Capella Hésperis (Coro Masa Coral) y Coral Canticorum Iubilo de Tegueste a quien agradecemos su presencia en esta muestra Coral. Ya finalizando este festivo mes de mayo que todavía trae más contenido que iremos desvelando. Siempre unidos por la música #SomosAlmaAzul

[masayoshi-kawaharablr]

Palestrina - Tota pulchra es (Motet for 5 voices from Canticum Canticorum)

[meeedeee]

Песнь Песней сэра Гая Гизборна |Sir Guy of Gisburne's Canticum Canticorum by Helen_scram

«Хвастать, милая, не стану... или Как завоевать девушку. Рецепт от сэра Гая Гизборна.» I'm Not Going to Boast… or How to Win a Girl. Recipe from Sir Guy of Gisburne

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[adsmusiconstellations]

Krzysztof Penderecki - Kosmogonia (Penderecki: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, 1970)

https://penderecki-center.pl

[turangalila]

Dominique Vellard (*1953) Cantique 2, pour soprano et 3 violes (2004-2012)

– Quam pulchra es – Intermède – Anima mea

Quam pulchra es et quam decora amica mea, columba mea, formosa mea. Veni dilecta mea, amica mea, columba mea, formosa mea. Vox enim tua dulcis et facies decora nimis. Quam pulchra es amica mea.

Anima mea liquefacta est, ut dilectus locutus est. Vox enim eius dulcis, et facies eius decora. Labia eius lilia stillantia myrrham primam. Adiuro vos, filiae Hierusalem, si inveneritis dilectum meum, ut nuntietis ei, quia amore langueo.

Dominique Vellard – Cantica Sacra Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard. (2015, Evidence – EVCD009)

[trnkaa]

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs

[beatrizperryc]

I just can’t say how happy and tired I am right now. Tomorrow we have a concert, and these moments have just been so good. Lots of laughter, music, friendship, hard work and dedicaton. I am sure we will carry these within our heart for a long, long time.

[upennmanuscripts]

Ms. Codex 1329 - De Canticis canticorum

This manuscript is a 13th-century copy of Haimo's 9th-century commentary on the Song of Solomon, with an unusual layout presenting the biblical lemmata in the margins enclosed in decorated circles and triangles. The commentary is allegorical, interpreting the Song of Songs as describing the marriage of Christ and the Church. Chapter divisions are added in the margins in a later medieval hand. This text is also known as the Commentarius in cantica canticorum or Expositio in cantica canticorum and has been attributed to Haimo of Halberstadt, Remigius Altissiodorensis, Cassiodorus, and Thomas Aquinas. The commentary is followed by an unidentified introduction to the Song of Songs. It was written in Italy, between 1200 and 1230 CE. 

Click here for additional information, or here for the facsimile. 

[the-hellsing-organisation]

Hellsing Fanfictions - Masterlist

Beneath the cut you will find a collection of all Hellsing fanfictions found online. 

If you want to contribute in any way, just get into my inbox or messages.

Reblogs are allowed and appreciated.

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~ As you see it is still under construction.... at least I added a few names, will add the rest of their work and then add genres to the ffs ~

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Animell0w/Dethronedgod (ff.net)

The Symphony of War (series)

Aevon-ottercat (A03 / Tumblr)

Circadian Rhythms (series)

Nightmare (oneshot)

Playing Chase (oneshot)

What happened to Walter (oneshot)

Crystallinee (A03 / Tumblr)

Closer (series)

Mine (oneshot)

Moonrise (oneshot)

Satellite Mind (oneshot)

Vice (series)

Visceral (oneshot)

What It Wants and Where It Goes (oneshot)

All this, and love too, will ruin us (oneshot)

Dogofthestate (A03)

A little sympathy (oneshot)

...But I Think I Shot the Gun (series)

Excess (oneshot)

Powerless (oneshot)

Nail (oneshot)

Doodleferp (A03 / Tumblr)

The Red Yarn (oneshot)

We Need To Talk (oneshot)

FriendlyNeighborhoodAnon (A03)

She calls me (series)

Goblins-riddles-or-frocks/blood-and-cigars (A03 / Tumblr)

A Diversion (oneshot)

Beautiful, Wicked, Brazen (oneshot)

Dream of Daylight (oneshot)

Fragments, Glory, And What It Is To Lose (oneshot)

Grief’s Cold Hands (oneshot)

Hold This Heart In Your Teeth (oneshot)

If He Wills It (oneshot)

In This Darkness, I Have You (oneshot)

Leave Them and Walk With Dust (series)

Mercy (oneshot)

Spare A Cigarette?(oneshot)

The Fate of Prometheus (oneshot)

The Hand Which Holds The Leash (oneshot)

These Truths That Shape Us (oneshot)

This Is Where Monsters Weep (series)

Thirty Years of Silence (oneshot)

Waiting (oneshot)

Girlycards/Hellsing Security (A03 / Tumblr)

ABO Isn't Just Blood Types (series)

Autophilia (oneshot)

A Patient Phase (oneshot)

A Ghost In My Town (oneshot)

At Her Feet (oneshot)

Bad Time To Laugh (oneshot)

Balategra One-Shots (series)

Blood Runs Black (series)

Blue Lilies and Peach Tiffanies (oneshot)

Bump In The Night (oneshot)

Come On Fill Your Cup Up (oneshot)

Craving (series)

Flowers, Roses, Weeds (oneshot)

Hermes's Wings (series)

Hellsing Balategra Role Switch AU (series)

Hom0w-30 (oneshot)

Hotel Hellsing (oneshot)

Holy Smoke! (series)

Restraint Level 69 (oneshot)

Revolutionary Girl Integra: The Vampire Bride (series)

Ride It (oneshot)

Only Girl In The World (oneshot)

Scene Of The Crime (oneshot)

Seras-tonin (oneshot)

Stale Crisps (oneshot)

Stained (oneshot)

Splinter (oneshot)

Smooth Action (oneshot)

Tears Can't Put Out A Fire (oneshot)

There Will Be Blood (series)

The Arcana: The Knight & The Night (series)

The Defilement Of Integra Hellsing (oneshot)

The Five Love Languages (series)

The Silver Mirror (oneshot)

The Wolf And The Sheep (oneshot)

Nightmares (oneshot)

Lovebirds (oneshot)

Life Couldn't Get Much Sweeter (oneshot)

Like A Fruit On A Tree (oneshot)

Live By The Sword (series)

In Vain (series)

Year Of The Strap (series)

With Surgical Precision (series)

Winter Sun & Summer Snow (oneshot)

Hylla (A03 / Tumblr)

Beyond the Dead Reef (oneshot)

Black Shadows (#BFAFB2) (oneshot)

Canticum Canticorum Salomonis 1 (series)

Catholic Undergraduate (oneshot)

Fire Orange (#FF7700) (oneshot)

Morning Drinks (oneshot)

Just One More (oneshot)

Therustycage (A03 / Tumblr)

Embracing Sin (series)

Eternal Sin (series) 

My-mild-ginger (A03 / Tumblr)

Like Real People Do (series)

Lesmismignon/Eiserne (A03 / Tumblr)

Satis (series)

Snow White (series)

Threnody (oneshot)

Psyche (oneshot)

Pushing Daisies (oneshot)

Morgan-diablood (A03 / Tumblr)

Tale of a Phoenix (series)

Scourge (Ao3 / Tumblr)

Absolute Clownery (oneshot)

Addressing the cringe trauma from my fail childhood (oneshot)

Ass Backwards (oneshot)

And then i said "dude, check it out. it's got extra mayo" (oneshot)

Baby's First Stand Spar (oneshot)

Bed Of Roses (oneshot)

Better (oneshot)

Beautiful Boy Delinquent, Jan Valentine (oneshot)

Big Stink (oneshot)

Bitches (oneshot)

Call that a role reversal (oneshot)

Carefree Action (oneshot)

Cherubim-Verse (series)

Disappoint (oneshot)

Drawing Dead (oneshot)

Do Robots Have Dicks? (oneshot)

Dumb Bitch Hours (oneshot)

Fellas? (oneshot)

Feeling a little mixed (oneshot)

Gift (oneshot)

Girlboss And Malewife (oneshot)

Happy bitch (oneshot)

Human Nature (oneshot)

Influence (oneshot)

I know a weenie man (oneshot)

I May Be Stupid (oneshot)

Imagine surviving. Fucking cringe! (oneshot)

I've got news for you doc... i'm mr scars (oneshot)

Jan gets pegged (oneshot)

Jan Valentine Yoshikage Kira Moments (oneshot)

Judgement (oneshot)

Luke Meowentine (oneshot)

Love Loses (oneshot)

Make her a member of the midnight crew (oneshot)

Medical Emergency (oneshot)

Modern DocJan Cinematic Universe (series)

Moonsweater (oneshot)

Nyan Valentine (oneshot)

OC Dump (oneshot)

On It (oneshot)

Out Of My Minds (oneshot)

Out Of My Minds (oneshot)

Open Secret (oneshot)

One Of Life's Little Tortures (oneshot)

Pale (oneshot)

Paralyzed (oneshot)

Reverie (oneshot)

[S] Valentine Brothers: Ascend (oneshot)

Savior Of The Dreaming Dead (oneshot)

The Gun Show (oneshot)

Tight (oneshot)

Tornado (oneshot)

This Hurts (oneshot)

Vati (oneshot)

Vampire Surgery (Surgery That Turns You Into A Vampire) (oneshot)

Warmth (oneshot)

Wishing Well (oneshot)

Wow jan, how come your bro lets you have TWO boyfriends? (oneshot)

Your bro looks gnc as fuck (oneshot)

You're bi-curious i'm bi-obnoxious. we are not the same (oneshot)

JaydenRayne01 (A03 / Tumblr)

Plutonian Sun (series)

Neet0 (A03 / Tumblr)

Revelations (series)

Moonfallthefox (A03)

Easier said than done (series)

High enough (oneshot)

Punishment (series)

The Golden Road to Heaven (oneshot)

makes a cathedral, him pressing against me (oneshot)

Sanctitas/Miscellanium (A03)

But i have chosen you out of this world (oneshot)

Ecclesiastes 5:2 (oneshot)

Ex opere operato (oneshot)

Indulgence (oneshot)

Inveniam viam aut faciam (oneshot)

Lupus est homo homini (oneshot)

Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me (oneshot)

Spectaculum venandi (or: the unmaking of the hart) (oneshot)

The Golden Road to Heaven (oneshot)

Saturnberry (A03 / Tumblr)

A New World (oneshot)

Daffodils in the Rain (series)

Therewasatale/Numbika  (A03 / Tumblr)

Answer (oneshot)

Are we in love? (oneshot)

Arsenic (oneshot)

Confession (oneshot)

Dad (oneshot)

For I have sinned (oneshot)

Guest (oneshot)

Had a thought (oneshot)

Instinct (oneshot)

In the rain (oneshot)

Poor decision (oneshot)

WhispyBoi (A03 / Tumblr)

And Then You Became the Moon (series)

Hellsing: Tales of Iscariot (series)

Non sum qualis eram (oneshot)