{"id":18999,"date":"2023-12-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18999"},"modified":"2023-12-02T20:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T01:08:59","slug":"advent-singing-veni-veni-emmanuel-o-come-o-come-emmanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18999","title":{"rendered":"Advent Singing: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Veni, Veni Emmanuel - The Gesualdo Six\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MSRocN1dTrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first hymn of the advent season is the Latin version of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. These words have been traced to the eighth century when the medieval church chanted \u2018O\u2019 Antiphons during Vespers on the final days of advent. At least, that&#8217;s when they were established in church liturgy. There is a bit of evidence suggesting they were prayed or chanted before that. The tune we use is from a Requiem Mass in a fifteenth-century French Franciscan Processional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The English words we&#8217;re familiar with come from Englishman John M. Neale in 1851. I have copied the words sung below the next video, showing a processional in the Basel Cathedral of Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel&#8221; (Isaiah 7:14 ESV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Veni, veni, Emmanuel | Mark D. Templeton | M\u00e4nnerstimmen Basel, Switzerland\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5fH7xJ9OfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veni, veni Emmanuel;<br>Captivum solve Israel,<br>Qui gemit in exilio,<br>Privatus Dei Filio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Refrain<\/strong><br>Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,<br>Nascetur pro te, Israel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veni o Jesse virgula! <br>Ex hostis tuos ungula, <br>De specu tuos tartari <br>Educ, et antro barathri.<br><em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veni, veni, O Oriens;<br>Solare nos adveniens,<br>Noctis depelle nebulas,<br>Dirasque noctis tenebras.<br><em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veni, Clavis Davidica!<br>Regna reclude caelica;<br>Fac iter tutum superum,<br>Et claude vias inferum.<br><em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first hymn of the advent season is the Latin version of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. These words have been traced to the eighth century when the medieval church chanted \u2018O\u2019 Antiphons during Vespers on the final days of advent. At least, that&#8217;s when they were established in church liturgy. There is a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advent Singing: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[104,504,1254,3966],"class_list":["post-18999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-hymns","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19019,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions\/19019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}