Virga iesse floruit, medieval chant of the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany ( Lyric Video)

You like our content and you want to help us keep posting (you can donate as little as 1 ): Special thanks to our patrons on Patreon and SubscribeStar who made this video possible Twitter: Facebook: About the chant: This is an intriguing record, illustrating some aspects of the musical life of a community of Benedictine nuns in the great French double monastery of Fontevrault, an early medieval royal foundation. In 1304, Eleanor of Brittany became its sixteenth Abbess, having been trained as a nun in the English daughter house of Amesbury. The Gradual that bears her arms contains, in addition to the normal chant repertoire, a special repertoire of its own (not, as mistranslated in the notes, a repertory of the Proper which, in any case, was already there). It is this collection of miscellaneous pieces tha