This is the Latin hymn Dies Irae:

It is often sung in English as the hymn Of the Glorious Body Telling, to the same tune as the Latin.

The opening words recall another famous Latin sequence, from which this hymn is derived: Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis by Venantius Fortunatus.

Hilary is sometimes regarded as the first Latin Christian hymn writer, but none of the compositions assigned to him is indisputable.

The names were taken from the first verse of the Latin hymn Ut queant laxis, where the syllables fall on their corresponding scale degree.

" Dies Irae " ( Day of Wrath ) is a thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano ( 1200 – c. 1265 ).

Part I is based on the Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (" Come, Creator Spirit "), and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.

We might be tempted to regard this discourse as a fabrication of later date, were it not for the fact that a Latin hymn directed against the Albigenses, and certainly belonging to the early 13th century, speaks in exactly similar terms.

In addition to French, Latin too was a literary language, with works that include the " Carmen de morte Sumerledi ", a poem which exults triumphantly the victory of the citizens of Glasgow over Somailre mac Gilla Brigte and the " Inchcolm Antiphoner ", a hymn in praise of St. Columba.

( The conductus sets a rhymed Latin poem called a sequence to a repeated melody, much like a contemporary hymn.

A canticle ( from the Latin canticulum, a diminutive of canticum, song ) is a hymn, psalm or other song of praise.

The Carmen Saeculare ( Latin for " Secular Hymn "-" Song of the Ages ") is a hymn in Sapphic meter written by the Roman poet Horace.

Thus, it is believed by some authors he promoted Latin sacred music for use during the eucharistic worship and composed a number of liturgical hymns, among which some twentieth-century scholars number the major Latin Christian hymn of praise, Te Deum, traditionally attributed to Saints Ambrose and Augustine.

During the wedding ceremony of the Sheriff of Rottingham and Maid Marian, the abbott sings the hymn in Pig Latin, calling it the " New Latin ".

Ave Maris Stella ( Latin, " Hail Star of the Sea ") is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary.

The Latin text of the hymn as authorized for use in the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Rite ( ordinary form ) is the following:

The tune he wrote for the Latin hymn Tantum Ergo eventually became known in Slavic lands as Коль славен ( Kol slaven ), in which form it is still sung as a Christmas carol today.

Similarly the Western Roman Catholic Church greets what it sees as really in the Eucharist with the words of a Latin hymn of which a literal translation is: " Hail, true body, born of Mary Virgin, and which truly suffered and was immolated on the cross for mankind!

The work is in two parts, each consisting of three movements, with the extra orchestral and vocal forces required for the second part, which sets to music the words of the Latin religious hymn, the Te Deum.

" Gloria in excelsis Deo " ( Latin for " Glory to God in the highest ") is a hymn known also as the Greater Doxology ( as distinguished from the " Minor Doxology " or Gloria Patri ) and the Angelic Hymn.

The Sanctus ( Latin: Holy ) is a hymn from Christian liturgy, forming part of the Order of Mass.

Most notes of the solfege scale ( do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti ) derive their names from the first syllable of the lines of Ut queant laxis, a Latin hymn.

He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

Andronikos II also attempted to marry off his son and co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos to the Latin Empress Catherine I of Courtenay, thus seeking to eliminate Western agitation for a restoration of the Latin Empire.

It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.

Cranmer's work of simplification and revision was also applied to the Daily Offices, which were to become Morning, and Evening Prayer ; and which he hoped would also serve as a daily form of prayer to be used by the Laity, thus replacing both the late medieval lay observation of the Latin Hours of the Virgin, and its English equivalent, the Primer.

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

The Council entrusted to the Pope the implementation of its work ; as a result, Pope Pius IV issued the Tridentine Creed in 1565 ; and Pope Pius V issued in 1566 the Roman Catechism, in 1568 a revised Roman Breviary, and in 1570 a revised Roman Missal, thus standardizing what since the 20th century has been called the Tridentine Mass ( from the city's Latin name Tridentum ), and Pope Clement VIII issued in 1592 a revised edition of the Vulgate.

Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.

The ordinary degree sign ( U + 00B0 ) followed by the Latin letter F ("° F ") is thus the preferred way of recording the symbol for degree Fahrenheit.

A Chinese alchemical text dated 492 noted saltpeter burnt with a purple flame, providing a practical and reliable means of distinguishing it from other inorganic salts, thus enabling alchemists to evaluate and compare purification techniques ; the earliest Arabic and Latin accounts of saltpeter purification are dated after 1200.

The Western Roman Empire was thus revived ( Latin: renovatio Romanorum imperii ) by transferring it to the Frankish king.

English is thus more closely related to West Frisian than to any other modern language, although less than a quarter of the vocabulary of Modern English is shared with West Frisian or other West Germanic languages because of extensive borrowings from Norse, Norman, Latin, and other languages.

The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named " Mikilenburg " ( Old Saxon: " big castle ", thus the Grecised name variant Megalopolis used in Medieval Latin sources ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar.

In genetics, a mutagen ( Latin, literally origin of change ) is a physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material, usually DNA, of an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level.

Other Romance languages derive their word for yes from the Latin sic, " thus is, was done, etc.

He thus broke the tenuous union which had been reached between the Greek and the Latin Churches at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 and further compromise was rendered impossible.

However, like infants ( Latin infans meaning " unable to speak "), non-human animals cannot answer questions about whether they feel pain ; thus the defining criterion for pain in humans cannot be applied to them.

In 1641 he published a metaphysics work, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia ( Meditations on First Philosophy ), written in Latin and thus addressed to the learned.

The Romans heavily colonized the province, and thus started a period of intense romanization, the Vulgar Latin giving birth to the Proto-Romanian language.

Latin pontifex, " bridge-builder ", in this sense, between men and the gods ) and thus viewed the king with religious awe.

Roman law thus served as a basis for legal practice throughout Western continental Europe, as well as in most former colonies of these European nations, including Latin America, and also in Ethiopia.

The word tifinagh or tifinigh is widely thought to be a feminine plural cognate of Punic, through the feminine prefix ti-and Latin Punicus ; thus tifinigh would mean " the Phoenician ( letters )".

The word " thesaurus " is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the latinisation of the Greek ( thēsauros ), literally " treasure store ", generally meaning a collection of things which are of big importance or value ( and thus the medieval rank of thesaurer was a synonym for treasurer ).

In League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry ( 2006 ), the Court ruled that Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting plan intentionally diluted the votes of Latinos and thus violated the Equal Protection Clause.