Dies Irae


 
 

Dies Iræ ('Day of Wrath') is a famous Latin hymn written by Thomas of Celano. It is often judged to be the best medieval Latin poem, differing from classical Latin by its accentual (non-quantitative) stress, and its rhymed lines. The meter is trochaic. The poem describes the day of judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the good will be delivered and the evil will be cast into eternal flames.

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It is used in the Sequentia of the Requiem mass. For a literal word-for-word translation, see Dies Irae Word By Word.

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Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

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Introduction
The poem itself
Manuscript sources
Musical settings
Liturgical use
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