Beata viscera by Pérotin (Magister Perotinis) fl 1200 #liveperformance #medievalmusic #magpieconsort

Live performance from Magpie Consort's debut Australian concert in Watervale Uniting Church, 15 August 2026. Pérotin flourished around 1200, creating music from the Notre Dame School. Renowned as one of the fathers of early polyphony, although this song has only one line. Performers: Kenneth Pope, Melinda Pike, Anna Pope, Emma Horwood and Donna Hughes-Barton Video by Fraser Cormack #magpieconsort #medievalmusic #medieval #clarevalley #instrumentalmusic ‪@MagpieConsort‬ #notredame #perotin #oud #vielle #harp Text: Beata viscera, Marie virginis cuius ad ubera rex magni nominis; veste sub altera vim celans numinis dictavit federa Dei et hominis. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium. Populus gentium sedens in tenebris surgit ad gaudium partus tam celebris: Iudea tedium fovet in latebris, cor gerens conscium delicet funebris. Translation by Bernard Mageean Blessed is the womb of the virgin Mary, At whose breasts lay the king of great renown. Hiding his mighty power, He joined the human to the divine. O amazing news of unprecedented joy! We behold the virgin after the birth. The people of nations once languishing in darkness Now arise joyfully on account of this motherhood. For Juda a weary sentence has been served in a dark place, But now the heart with this secret is pouring light on those buried.