Peter Abelard

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Planctus David 08:30 Tools
O quanta qualia 15:02 Tools
Epithalamica 11:22 Tools
De Profundis 02:59 Tools
Abelard and Heloise, from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete Monastic Song: O quanta qualia 03:30 Tools
Virgines Caste 06:13 Tools
Planctus Cigne 08:23 Tools
Abelard and Heloise, from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete Monastic Song: Virgines caste 03:30 Tools
Abelard and Heloise, from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete Monastic Song: Planctus cigne 03:12 Tools
Abelard and Heloise, from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete Monastic Song: De profundis 01:42 Tools
Mater Salvatoris 02:21 Tools
Dolorum solatium, "Planctus David super Saul et Jonatha" 09:33 Tools
Planctus David super Saul et Jonatha 09:33 Tools
Ne Derelinquas Me 03:30 Tools
Magnum Salutis Gaudium 01:42 Tools
Dolorium solatium 01:42 Tools
Suscipe 03:12 Tools
Quam pium 03:30 Tools
Fulcite me floribus 03:29 Tools
Dum esset rex 03:29 Tools
Sponsus 03:12 Tools
Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha 04:48 Tools
Samson dux fortissime 03:12 Tools
Da Mariae tympanum 01:38 Tools
Rex Obiit 03:40 Tools
Plange, Castella 07:50 Tools
O Quanta Qualita, Motet 07:50 Tools
O Monialis 01:42 Tools
Quis Dabit 03:12 Tools
Suscipe (Benedictine Ritual) 03:30 Tools
Dolorum Solatium 09:03 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 01 - O Quanta Qualia 03:29 Tools
Abelard, o quanta qualia - Arr. for Guitar 03:12 Tools
Planctus III: Ad festas choreas celibes (arr. A.-M. Deschamps) 13:34 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 03 - Planctus Cigne 03:12 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 02 - Virgines Caste 03:12 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 04 - Quis Dabit 03:12 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 07 - Plange, Castella 03:12 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 05 - O Monialis 03:12 Tools
Peter Abelard - Monastic Song - 06 - Rex Obiit 03:12 Tools
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Peter Abelard (Lt: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailard; Fr: Pierre Abélard) (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for his student Héloïse has become legendary. Today Abelard is known largely as a philosopher who had a tragic love affair with Héloïse. However, Abelard was also long known as an important poet and composer. Abelard composed some celebrated love songs for Héloïse that are now lost, and which have not been identified in the anonymous repertoire. Héloïse praised these songs in a letter: "The great charm and sweetness in language and music, and a soft attractiveness of the melody obliged even the unlettered", Abelard later composed a hymn book for the religious community that Héloïse joined. This hymn book, written after 1130, differed from contemporary hymnals, such as that of Bernard of Clairvaux, in that Abelard used completely new and homogeneous material. They were grouped by metre, which meant that comparatively few melodies could be used. Only one melody from this hymnal survives, O quanta qualia. Abelard also left six biblical planctus (laments), which were very original and influenced the subsequent development of the lai, a song form that flourished in northern Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. Melodies that have survived have been praised as "flexible, expressive melodies (that) show an elegance and technical adroitness that are very similar to the qualities that have been long admired in Abelard's poetry." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.