The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dies Irae \Di"es I"r[ae]\ Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous medi[ae]val Latin hymn on the Last Judgment. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wikipedia
"" (Day of Wrath) is a Latin hymn attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscan Order (1200 – c. 1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (†1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome. The hymn dates from at least the thirteenth century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to St. Gregory the Great (d. 604), St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), or St. Bonaventure (1221-1274).
It is a medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and its rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The poem describes the day of judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames.
The hymn is best known from its use as a sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass (Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion service books.
The melody is one of the most-quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many diverse composers.
Dies Irae was a Polish death metal band founded in 1992. Their early recordings were heavily inspired and influenced by Vader and Morbid Angel.
Since 2005 the band is on indefinite hiatus.
__NOTOC__ Dies Irae is the fourth and final studio album by Devil Doll.
A concept by Mr. Doctor, is inspired by the life and music of George Harvey Bone, the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson and Isidore Ducasse.
The lyrics contains multiple references to the poem The Conqueror Worm by E.A. Poe (with the entire final stanza of the poem reproduced almost verbatim). The sample used at the beginning "Part 12" is from the film The Night Of The Hunter, and is the character, "Pearl Harper" (played by Sally Jane Bruce) singing.
"Part 18" ends at 2:52. About 23 minutes of silence follows and a 2:13 song leads to the end of the track. This song is sometimes referred to as "Part 19".
Dies Irae is a 13th-century Latin hymn.
Dies Irae may also refer to:
- Dies Irae (short story), a novel written by Slovak novelist Martin Kukučín
- Dies irae (visual novel), a Japanese visual novel originally released in 2007
- Dies Irae (band), a Polish death metal band
- Dies Irae (album), a 1996 album by the band Devil Doll
- Dies Irae (Noir Désir album), a live album by the band Noir Désir
- Alternative title for the 1943 film Day of Wrath
- A part of a Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi
is an adult visual novel developed and published by Light. There are several different versions of the game.
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) is a live album by French rock band Noir Désir, recorded during the tour in support of the album Tostaky and released in 1994. Aside from the band's own originals, the album features two covers:
- I Want You (She's So Heavy) ( The Beatles)
- Long Time Man ( Nick Cave).
The name of the album was selected by the band's guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay who, while using a dictionary, found Dies Irae, and because of its similarity to a Noir Désir anagram and the translation, Day of Wrath, he felt the expression suited the band well.
An alternate version of I Want You (She's So Heavy) is featured as a hidden track.
Usage examples of "dies irae".
The antimissiles and the D-IIIs had kept off the fatal wasps for a finite time, and then at last the Dies Irae had come -- for everyone, because of the gob, the great objectless device which Carleton Lufteufel had detonated from a satellite at an apogee of five thousand miles.
The antimissiles and the D-IIIs had kept off the fatal wasps for a finite time, and then at last the Dies Irae had come -- for everyone, because of the gob, the great objectless device which Carleton Lufteufel had detonated from a satel.
Somewhere out in the house (though he may have dreamed that too) a chorus had begun singing a Dies Irae in plainsong.
Because this was, for all participants, the Dies Irae, the Day of Wrath.