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