Montserrat Codex - Ad mortem festinamus

Описание: Ad mortem festinamus, an anonymous piece from the c1300s, collected in the Spanish Monastery of Montserrat.

Singers: Raphaela Mazzone
Kate Tretheway
Beth Christian
Rachel Sag
Anna Pope
Fiona O'Connor
Rosemary Byron-Scott
Bernard Mageean
Melinda Pike
Tim Muecke
Evan Sanders
Clive Conway
Kenneth Pope
Andrew McCauley

Players:
Evan Sanders (descant recorder)
Rebecca Witt (rebec)
Tim Muecke (violin)
Damien Day (viola)
James Cowling (bass viol)
Bernard Mageean ( tambourine)
Kenneth Pope (castanets)

Recorded live in concert:
'A Mediæval Celebration'
Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2011
by
Rosemary Beal, 5MBS
Barr Smith Library,
University of Adelaide

Including photos by NASA, Eleanor Pope and Rosemary Byron-Scott.
Lyrebyrd icon by Nichole Chan.
Film by Anna Pope.

Text:
Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.
Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano, ut degentes seculi non mulcentur in vano. Iam est hora surgere a somno mortis pravo.
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.

English translation:
We fly at speed towards death, so let us have done with sinning. My message is about contempt for the world, so that our unworthy age will not be lost in vanity. Now is the time to rise up and prepare for our long sleep in death. Short life shortens and shortly ends. Death is coming very quickly, but no-one thinks so. Death destroys all and pities none.

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