Since around the middle of the nineteenth century, the medieval carol, Orientis partibus, has been popularly known as the “Song of the Ass.” It tells the story of the donkey on which Mary rode into Bethlehem, and was apparently sung as part of the Epiphany celebrations at Beauvais, France, from the Middle Ages to at least the seventeenth century. A manuscript with the musical setting as used in Beauvais survives in the British Library (MS Egerton 2615) and seems to have been copied in the thirteenth century. Six stanzas survive in that manuscript, each with slight musical variants (though these are typically ignored in modern editions and performances), and another four stanzas of text in other manuscripts of the period. Our performance presents the music to the entire song as it appears in the original manuscript, but we are using the rhyming English translation by Henry Copley Greene. Greene wrote an article about the piece in 1931 and included such a delightful translation that I decided to use it as an alternative to the original Latin. The Latin version can be found elsewhere on our site.
Негізгі бет Out from lands of Orient, Anon. 13th-century French, sung by Quire Cleveland, dir. Ross W. Duffin
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