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Dies irae (Latin pronunciation: [ˈdi.ɛs ˈi.rɛ]; 'Day of Wrath') is a Latinsequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200 – c. 1265)^[1] or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominicanstudium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.^[2] The sequence dates from at least the thirteenth century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to St. Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or Bonaventure (1221–1274).^[1]

It is a Medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The poem describes the Last Judgment, trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames.

It is best known from its use in the Requiem (Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion service books. The melody is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers.

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Use in the Roman liturgy[edit]

The Dies irae has been used in the Roman liturgy as the sequence for the Requiem Mass for centuries, as evidenced by the important place it holds in musical settings such as those by Mozart and Verdi. It appears in the Roman Missal of 1962, the last edition before the implementation of the revisions that occurred after the Second Vatican Council. As such, it is still heard in churches where the Tridentine Latin liturgy is celebrated. It also formed part of the traditional liturgy of All Souls' Day.

In the reforms to the Roman Catholic liturgy ordered by the Second Vatican Council, the 'Consilium for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy', the Vatican body charged with drafting and implementing the reforms (1969–70), eliminated the sequence as such from funerals and other Masses for the Dead. A leading figure in the post-conciliar liturgical reforms, ArchbishopAnnibale Bugnini, explains the rationale of the Consilium:

They got rid of texts that smacked of a negative spirituality inherited from the Middle Ages. Thus they removed such familiar and even beloved texts as Libera me, Domine, Dies irae, and others that overemphasized judgment, fear, and despair. https://omgplease.netlify.app/acid-pro-7-patch-download.html. These they replaced with texts urging Christian hope and arguably giving more effective expression to faith in the resurrection.^[3]

Dies irae remains as a hymn ad libitum in the Liturgy of the Hours during the last week before Advent, divided into three parts for the Office of Readings, Lauds and Vespers.^[4]

Text[edit]

The Latin text below is taken from the Requiem Mass in the 1962 Roman Missal. The first English version below, translated by William Josiah Irons in 1849, albeit from a slightly different Latin text, replicates the rhyme and metre of the original.^[5][6] This translation, edited for more conformance to the official Latin, is approved by the Catholic Church for use as the funeral Mass sequence in the liturgy of the Anglican ordinariate.^[7] The second English version is a more formal equivalence translation.

Because the last two stanzas differ markedly in structure from the preceding stanzas, some scholars consider them to be an addition made in order to suit the great poem for liturgical use. The penultimate stanza Lacrimosa discards the consistent scheme of rhyming triplets in favor of a pair of rhyming couplets. The last stanza Pie Iesu abandons rhyme for assonance, and, moreover, its lines are catalectic.

In the liturgical reforms of 1969–71, stanza 19 was deleted and the poem divided into three sections: 1–6 (for Office of Readings), 7–12 (for Lauds) and 13–18 (for Vespers). In addition 'Qui Mariam absolvisti' in stanza 13 was replaced by 'Peccatricem qui solvisti' so that that line would now mean, 'You who freed/absolved the sinful woman'. This was because modern scholarship denies the common medieval identification of the woman taken in adultery with Mary Magdalene, so Mary could no longer be named in this verse. In addition, a doxology is given after stanzas 6, 12 and 18:^[4]

Manuscript sources[edit]

The text of the sequence is found, with slight verbal variations, in a 13th-century manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale at Naples. It is a Franciscan calendar missal that must date between 1253 and 1255 for it does not contain the name of Clare of Assisi, who was canonized in 1255, and whose name would have been inserted if the manuscript were of later date.

Inspiration[edit]

Dies Irae English Version

A major inspiration of the hymn seems to have come from the Vulgate translation of Zephaniah 1:15–16:

Other images come from Revelation 20:11–15 (the book from which the world will be judged), Matthew 25:31–46 (sheep and goats, right hand, contrast between the blessed and the accursed doomed to flames), 1Thessalonians 4:16 (trumpet), 2Peter 3:7 (heaven and earth burnt by fire), Luke 21:26 ('men fainting with fear.. they will see the Son of Man coming'), etc.

From the Jewish liturgy, the prayer Unetanneh Tokef appears to be related: 'We shall ascribe holiness to this day, For it is awesome and terrible'; 'the great trumpet is sounded', etc.

Other translations[edit]

Dies Irae Song

A number of English translations of the poem have been written and proposed for liturgical use. A very loose Protestant version was made by John Newton; it opens:

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Day of judgment! Day of wonders!
Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,
Louder than a thousand thunders,
Shakes the vast creation round!
How the summons will the sinner's heart confound!

Jan Kasprowicz, a Polish poet, wrote a hymn entitled 'Dies irae' which describes the Judgment day. The first six lines (two stanzas) follow the original hymn's metre and rhyme structure, and the first stanza translates to 'The trumpet will cast a wondrous sound'.

The American writer Ambrose Bierce published a satiric version of the poem in his 1903 book Shapes of Clay, preserving the original metre but using humorous and sardonic language; for example, the second verse is rendered:

Ah! what terror shall be shaping
When the Judge the truth's undraping –
Cats from every bag escaping!

Rev. Bernard Callan (1750–1804), an Irish priest and poet, translated it into Gaelic around 1800. His version is included in the Gaelic prayer book, The Spiritual Rose.^[8]

Literary references[edit]

• Walter Scott used the first two stanzas in the sixth canto of his narrative poem 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805).
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the first, the sixth and the seventh stanza of the hymn in the scene 'Cathedral' in the first part of his drama Faust (1808).
• Oscar Wilde's 'Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel' (Poems, 1881), contrasts the 'terrors of red flame and thundering' depicted in the hymn with images of 'life and love'.
• In Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, Erik (the Phantom) has the chant displayed on the wall of his funereal bedroom.^[9]

Music[edit]

Musical settings[edit]

The words of Dies irae have often been set to music as part of the Requiem service. In some settings, it is broken up into several movements; in such cases, Dies irae refers only to the first of these movements, the others being titled according to their respective incipits.

The original setting was a sombre plainchant (or Gregorian chant). In four-line neumatic notation, it begins:

In 5-line staff notation, the same appears:

The earliest surviving polyphonic setting of the Requiem by Johannes Ockeghem does not include Dies irae. The first polyphonic settings to include the Dies irae are by Engarandus Juvenis (c. 1490) and Antoine Brumel (1516) to be followed by many composers of the renaissance. Later, many notable choral and orchestral settings of the Requiem including the sequence were made by composers such as Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, and Stravinsky.

Musical quotations[edit]

The traditional Gregorian melody has been used as a theme or musical quotation in many classical compositions, film scores, and popular works, including:

• Thomas Adès – Totentanz
• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Souvenirs: Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15 (No. 3: Morte)
• Ernest Bloch – Suite Symphonique^[10]
• Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, Requiem
• Johannes Brahms – Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118, No. 6, Intermezzo in E-flat minor^[11]
• Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind – Opening theme for The Shining, 1980^[12]; 'Country Lane' from A Clockwork Orange
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – 24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195: 'XII. No hubo remedio' (plate 24)^[13]
• Michel Chion - 'Dies Irae' on the 2014 album from The Roots..And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
• George Crumb – Black Angels (1970)
• Michael Daugherty – Metropolis Symphony 5th movement, 'Red Cape Tango';^[14]; Dead Elvis (1993) for bassoon and chamber ensemble^[15]
• Gerald Fried - Opening theme for The Return of Dracula, 1958
• Alexander Glazunov – 'From the Middle Ages' Suite, Op. 79
• Donald Grantham – Baron Cimetiére's Mambo^[16]
• Jerry Goldsmith – score for Poltergeist (1982) – quoted during the track 'Escape from Suburbia'^[17]
• Charles Gounod – Faust opera, act 4
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 103, 'The Drumroll'
• Gustav Holst – The Planets, movement 5, 'Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age'^[18][19]; Ode to Death for chorus and orchestra (1919)
• Arthur Honegger – La Danse des Morts, H. 131^[20]
• Gottfried Huppertz – Score for Metropolis (1927)
• Aram Khachaturian - Symphony No. 2
• Franz Liszt – Totentanz
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2, movements 1 and 5
• Alan Menken - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack), 'The Bells of Notre Dame'
• Modest Mussorgsky – Songs and Dances of Death, No. 3 'Trepak'
• Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No. 6, Op. 23
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1, Op. 13; Symphony No. 2, Op. 27; Symphony No. 3, Op. 44; Isle of the Dead, Op. 29; The Bells choral symphony, Op. 35; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, Piano sonata No. 1
• Ottorino Respighi – quoted near the end of the second movement of Impressioni Brasiliane (Brazilian Impressions)^[21]
• Leonard Rosenman – the main theme of The Car (1977)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre, Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony), Requiem
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 14; Aphorisms, Op. 13 – No. 7, 'Dance of Death'
• Stephen Sondheim – Sweeney Todd – quoted in 'The Ballad of Sweeney Todd' and the accompaniment to 'Epiphany'^[22]
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji – Sequentia cyclica super 'Dies irae' ex Missa pro defunctis and eight other works^[23]
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Manfred Symphony,^[24]Orchestral Suite No. 3^[25], 'Marche Funebre' for piano, Op. 21, #4
• Eugène Ysaÿe – Solo Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 27, No. 2 'Obsession'

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). 'Dies Iræ' . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
2. ^'Scritti vari di Filologia', The Catholic Encyclopædia, Rome: New Advent, 1901, p. 488
3. ^Bugnini, Annibale (1990), '46.II.1', The Reform of the Liturgy: 1948–1975, The Liturgical Press, p. 773
4. ^ ^abLiturgia Horarum, IV, Vaticana, 2000, p. 489
5. ^English Missal.
6. ^The Hymnal, USA: The Episcopal Church, 1940.
7. ^The Order for Funerals for use by the Ordinariates erected under the auspices of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum cœtibus(PDF), United States: US Ordinariate
8. ^McKenna, Malachy (ed.), The Spiritual Rose, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies – Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institute for Advanced Studies – Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath, F 2.22, archived from the original on April 6, 2007
9. ^Leroux, Gaston (1985), The Phantom of the Opera, Barnes & Noble, p. 139
10. ^Simmons, Walter (2004), Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-romantic Composers, Scarecrow, ISBN0-8108-4884-8
11. ^Cummings, Robert. Intermezzo for piano in E-flat minor, Op. 118/6 at AllMusic. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
12. ^Gengaro, Christine Lee (2013). Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 189–190. ISBN978-0-8108-8564-6.
13. ^Tedesco: 24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195
14. ^About this Recording – 8.559635 – Daugherty, M.: Metropolis Symphony / Deus ex Machina (T. Wilson, Nashville Symphony, Guerrero), Naxos
15. ^Daugherty, Michael, Dead Elvis
16. ^Grantham, Donald (2004), 'Donald Grantham', in Camphouse, Mark (ed.), Composers on Composing for Band, 2, Chicago: GIA, pp. 100–01, ISBN1-57999-385-0
17. ^Larson, Randall D. (1983). 'Jerry Goldsmith on Poltergeist and NIMH: A Conversation with Jerry Goldsmith by Randall D. Larson'. CinemaScore. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via The CinemaScore & Soundtrack Archives.
18. ^Greenberg, Robert (2011), The Great Courses: The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works, The Teaching Co
19. ^'Dies Irae – Holst: The Planets, V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age', struweltiger, 18 March 2013
20. ^Spratt, Geoffrey K. The Music of Arthur Honegger. Cork University Press, 1985.
21. ^Johnson, Edward. Liner notes: Respighi – Church Windows / Brazilian Impressions, CHAN 8317. Chandos.
22. ^Zadan, Craig (1989). Sondheim & Co (2nd ed.). Perennial Library. p. 248. ISBN0-06-091400-9.
23. ^Roberge, Marc-André, 'Citations of the Dies irae', Sorabji Resource Site, CA: U Laval
24. ^Lintgen, Arthur, 'Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony', Fanfare (review)
25. ^Leonard, James. Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3; Stravinsky: Divertimento at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 October 2011.

External links[edit]

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• 'Dies Iræ', Franciscan Archive. Includes two Latin versions and a literal English translation.