Latin music

Latin Learning Latin
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For immersion purposes, I would find it both fun and entertaining to listen to music in latin — is there any? Christian psalms and all, but, a day with Dies Iræ all long would give me nightmares when thinking about what the lyrics actually mean; also, it is often very hard to grasp what words are actually sung in many of these psalms, that, or the same short sentence is sung repetitively for a long while (I’m thinking about the popular rendering of Ave Maria, where half the song is ‹Ave maria gratia plena› dragged out and repeated).

Cheers ~

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I’ve been on the search for the same thing a year ago. Depending how hard you looked, I may not be of much help.

Of course, there’s always Adeste Fideles. Even though I’m nonreligious, I don’t find it too bad to listen to.

Here is a fandub of a Disney song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbv6ly9kXM

Wish more of stuff like that is made. Those Disney songs were fun.

Someone made a set of lyrics to sing along with the Superman theme. Easy enough to Google it.

Ode to Joy has a set of Latin lyrics, but I’ve never been impressed with it; and the meaning is completely different from the original German.

There’s a PS2 game called Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. One of the main songs, “Unsung War” is in Latin, but it’s in that church Latin choirs with repeating lyrics that you can hardly hear.

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Maybe not what you’re looking for in terms of content, but it is Latin. The good folks at Bolchazy-Carducci have translated some children’s songs into Latin and made them available for download.

http://ipodius.bolchazy.com/Audio/Popularia.html

Tunberg and Minkova have also translated several Mother Goose rhymes into Latin and packaged it with a CD.

http://www.amazon.com/Mater-Anserina-Poems-Latin-Children/dp/1585101931/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313260314&sr=8-1

Of course, given that you may be Swedish by culture you may not be familiar with some of these. Or I could be completely wrong.

Oh, and if you’re a Black Sabbath fan:

http://www.amazon.com/Sabbatum-Medieval-Tribute-Black-Sabbath/dp/B000QZQVZC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313260388&sr=1-1

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One of the reasons I began to study Latin was in order to understand Bach. With the liner notes you usually get the lyrics. Have fun.

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Something like this perhaps? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Piae-Cantiones-Latin-Mediaeval-Finland/dp/B00000DAJD/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1313603733&sr=1-1

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJGd4yZUO4&feature=related

Reminds me of my graduation at Glasgow University many moons ago.