Here is the latest composition in my Hildegard Revisited series (number 50 of 77). The text is a yearning for joy, and the melody is written in the mysterious phrygian mode. I had the idea that a languorous waltz might create the right atmosphere, and was delighted when the chant slipped easily into this somewhat surprising context.
If you’d like to see and hear the original, sung from the 12th century manuscripts, check out my previous post.
O eterne deus – a slow dance for joy
O eternal God, please burn now with such love that we may become those limbs that you made in the same love as you begot your Son at the first dawn, before all other creatures; and look at the need that falls upon us and remove it from us, for your Son’s sake, and lead us to the joy of salvation.
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