#gregorianchant Monks Of The Abbey Of Notre Dame
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@ovro Distraction and focus are something creatives must deal with. Your tuning is fascinating. BTW, #house #trance #progressive work well when I need the cpu cycles in my brain to be #overclocked. When not, I love #Gregorianchant.

I tried out some vocal harmonies this weekend, since it was #GregorianChant week. Things went off the rails pretty quick.

Looking forward to the next #GenreOfTheWeek! Anyways, here's what I made:
https://soundcloud.com/user-6243486/cephalogod?si=69bc648e82c8490887707affdddf4a75&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Hello, fellow mastodonians, it's time for an #introduction :

I'm Karin, #Austrian, living and working (at a lawyer's and solicitor's office) in #Linz, but more at home in the mountains of the #salzkammergut .
Interests: #travel #Italy #France #britishisles #scandinavia #archery #history #poetry #hiking #photography #nature #dogs #gardens #birdwatching #cooking #books #dorothylsayers #RuthRendell #PDJames #JRRTolkien #ColePorter #gregorianchant
and much more

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Throwback to the 90s alert!

🔊 #NowPlaying "Sadeness - Part I" by Enigma, featuring Gregorian vocals mostly sampled from the 1976 album Paschale Mysterium by the German choir Capella Antiqua München with conductor Konrad Ruhland (or so Wikipedia says!).

https://youtu.be/4F9DxYhqmKw

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Let's talk about the Sibyl of the Rhine, a.k.a. Hildegard of Bingen.

Born around 1098, she was crazy enough to push the boundaries of #GregorianChant, not to mention founding her own abbey, creating her own language, and writing theological, botanical, medicinal works, and one of the first musical plays.

🔉 #NowPlaying "O Euchari in Leta Via", featured in episode 9 of season 1 of Hannibal ("Trou Normand").

https://youtu.be/PC5b19xUuro

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#GregorianChant notation looks kind of funny. Notes are placed on a 4-line staff, there's a C clef and an F clef, and they have this concept of "nuems", groups of notes to be sung one after the other (remember, two different notes at the same time is one too many).

I found this reference that's pretty easy to read (if not fully complete) for you curiouser folks: http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Information/Chant_Notation/index.html

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#NowPlaying "Alleluia" by the Monks Of The Abbey Of Notre Dame.

You can hear the composer *almost* coming up with the lick, multiple times.

https://youtu.be/DZd22ufBAHQ

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Here is my experimental free improvisation ensembles take on the prompt of #GregorianChant just for fun.

https://ortet.bandcamp.com/track/one-of-those-stress-dreams

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Ko Matsushita: O lux beata Trinitas - University of Louisville Cardinal Singers, Kentucky, USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSp14ViC0pk&ab_channel=DolfRabus

During my extremely unprofessional explorations of #GregorianChant, I learned a new word: #melisma.

> In singing, the term melisma refers to a passage of music that has a group of notes that are sung with just one syllable of text. This is the opposite of syllabic singing, which is singing one note per syllable.

(from https://takelessons.com/blog/2021/02/what-is-melismatic-singing)

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I have performed #Gregorian style chant with three choirs. Most notably this 2011 performance of 'Save Me From Bloody Men' from Karl Jenkins, 'The Armed Man'.
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https://youtu.be/oMvUngtjTBU

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Are you chanting along?
Maybe, it's just me. I already feel calmer. I have gotten lots done today with a #GregorianChant in the background. And, I do feel somewhat #Enchanted.
With my language barrier I can't be sure what this one is about. It's short. But, It's beautiful...

ზარზმელი ბერების გალობა, შენ უბიწო
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_w7u9wsz7w

#GenreOfTheWeek #GregorianChant Easily the best known of the chants, the Dies Irae. The basic theme has since shown up in scores of other work throughout the centuries. Berlioz, Mozart, lots more. #mastomusic #classicalmusic

https://youtu.be/dsn9LWh230k

An excellent exploration of chant - not specifically #GregorianChant but completely relevant: BBC "The Listening Service"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bz6g

I hope it's available outside the UK. This whole series of podcasts, mostly on classical music, is lively and informative.
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#GregorianChant is a Western style originating in Italy, while #ByzantineChant is Eastern Orthodox originating in what is now Turkey. They are similar though, and usually set the same Biblical texts

Милость мира и Достойно есть - Византийский распев

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts, heaven and earth show Your glory: Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. Amen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jrlB-4bZo

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Agni Parthene" or "O Virgin Pure
St. Nectarios reportedly composed the text for this poem after having seen a vision of the Theotokos in a dream where she asked him to record this poem.

excerpt:
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!

Rejoice, O song of Cherubim/ Rejoice, O hymn of angels
Rejoice, O ode of Seraphim/ the joy of the archangels
Rejoice, O peace and happiness/ the harbor of salvation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vvPXz-Qes

Musician Pope Gregory I (stage name "Saint Gregory the Great") lived for 64 years. This number being a power of 2, he was canonized immediately after his death, and the #GregorianChant hashtag was born.

Gregory is believed to have composed such timeless hits as the Sacramentary and, today's pick for #GenreOfTheWeek, the Antiphonary:

#NowPlaying https://youtu.be/zIv88AhRcAo

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I did not appreciate #GregorianChant until my 20s and my monastery episode. Before that, I was the kid in the back of the cathedral complaining that they forgot the words again and maybe they should have practiced there instruments so they would have accompaniment. THEY HAD ALL WEEK.

An audible book tale: I neared the end of Joseph Campbell's _Asian Journals_ when I got a a tweet re _Neil Gaiman presents: Dimensions of Miracles by Richard Sheckley_ I thought something other than comparative journaling sounded good. Aah @neilhimself 's sweet voice & intro & then more metaphysical & philosophicizing about the nature of reality & how we make sense of it &.... it was great. On to _Swordspoint_ #books #audiobooks #RealityIsNotWhatItSeems #gregorianchant