Medieval music - In Rama sonat gemitus, Anon 12th century

’In Rama sonat gemitus’ (The sound of weeping is heard in Rama) is an anonymous work (conductus) found in the French manuscript source Wolfenbüttel 677. Using biblical allusion, it comments directly on the exile of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, from England to France in 1164. Although eventually returned to England in 1870, he was murdered just a few months later. This dates In Rama sonat gemitus to the years of his exile: 1165-1170. Performed as a processional of ’weeping women’ as part of th