Sentences with phrase «gregorian chant»

Richard Pousette - Dart's «Eye of the Circle» (1975 - 6), a contemplative white painting with a faint central image of a circle in a rectangle, dominates one wall of a hushed, chapel - like room (with Gregorian chant, yet, playing softly in the background).

Also in there somewhere - snaps from Street Fighter: The Movie game, the retailer - exclusive debut of Soul Bubbles, and the Gregorian chant trend that Halo begat - or at least helped to accelerate.

Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong, and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in

This ability to so accurately portray the human condition is one of the As the father of Gregorian chant, Pope St. Gregory the Great was the obvious candidate for patron of singers and musicians.

Russell Mael As the father of Gregorian chant, Pope St. Gregory the Great was the obvious candidate for patron of singers and musicians.

Gregorian chant books for the liturgy of The Roman Catholic Church.

For years, we would let our children fall asleep listening to choral music, soothing classical or even Gregorian chant, but after they broke about six CD players and we realized that CDs and CD players are getting harder to buy, we needed a better solution.

After the baby is down, I'd love to say my husband and I continue with candlelight, meditation, and synchronized Gregorian chant in darkness until we drift off to sleep by a wholesome 8:30 p.m., but that is not the case.

After 12 years of technocrat Bloomberg, is NYC ready for a bird - flipping, plain - spoken, Gregorian chant - listening, no - holds - barred mayor?

... In general, We require that future priests, from the time of Seminary onward, be trained to understand and celebrate Holy Mass in Latin as well as to employ Latin texts and use Gregorian chant; nor should great effort be neglected in regard to the faithful themselves, so that they learn thoroughly the commonly known prayers in the Latin language and in an equal degree that they should learn the Gregorian chant of those parts of the liturgy which are sung.

Without Latin and Gregorian chant our churches would be like «an extinguished candle, which no longer gives light, or attracts the minds of men» — not Pius X, but Paul VI.

Speaking more generally, I ask that future priests, from their time in the seminary, receive the preparation needed to understand and to celebrate Mass in Latin, and also to use Latin texts and execute Gregorian chant; nor should we forget that the faithful can be taught to recite the more common prayers in Latin, and also to sing parts of the liturgy to Gregorian chant.

Nothing one can do will convert Gregorian chant into a style as bodily and erotic in its center as various kinds of rock; nor can rock be made to sound as contemplative or as ethereal as chant, though it can indeed take on an aura of ecstasy.

Fine art adorns the walls of our schoolhouse, great literature is read in the classrooms, and Gregorian chant is taught in music class.

If, as Barron asserts, Catholicism «never threw anything out,» then why have Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony — granted pride of place (principum locum) by the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy — been largely lost?

At another venue, Gregorian chant was being taught - but the words were poems about nature.

«An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.»

It is found in the first document to be issued by the Second Vatican Council and is reiterated in GIRM 41: «The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as being especially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, all things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services.»

St Pius X was concerned to restore Gregorian chant to the liturgy and to foster the active participation of the people in the chant.

Because Gregorian chant lacks the regular rhythmic stresses and accents, it relies on these aspects of the text to give it impetus.

Gregorian chant is not reliant on the rhythms imposed by bar lines and other artificial stresses: it is driven by the text and subjugates itself to that text.

Nor do I believe that the Gregorian chant is the necessary model for all liturgical music, but I am violently protesting against it disappearance.

The notation of Gregorian chant betrays very little in the way of rhythm, which is left to the nuances in the text.

Joseph Estorninho is the director of music at St James's Catholic Primary School in Twickenham and the director of the Gregorian chant choir at the parish of St Margaret of Scotland in East Twickenham.

«The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as being especially suited to the Roman liturgy; therefore it should be given pride of place in liturgical services»

The text of the Mass has its own innate rhythmic structure and it is this that Gregorian chant facilitates.

Again, the music of the ages which sings its way into our souls, whether it be Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah, a Gregorian chant, or a Negro spiritual, is saturated with the words and the message of the Bible.

Examples may include Gregorian chant, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Carter, as well as traditional Japanese music for the koto, the Indian Raga system, and a Sioux dance.

The Jesuits had introduced Gregorian chant to Japan and built organs from bamboo pipes.

Many look back with nostalgia to the old days of Gregorian chant and prayer, and so many turn against what they thought was the new rite.

It was not simply a question of more men going into the monastery (Cistercian monasteries did experience a phenomenal growth in that period), but the avant - garde journals of the day were filled with articles about liturgical prayer, Gregorian chant and experiments in community living.

And I sat with the local community for a long time to determine how we were going to do this ordination — what kind of music and what kind of dance and what kind of liturgy — and I was all gung - ho for the fact that they had so many possible ways of incarnating the liturgy through their own African embodiment and rhythms and so forth, but they were absolutely adamant: they wanted Gregorian chant.

And when I asked them why they wanted Gregorian chant they said, «Because this is how we know that we are universal, we are catholic.»

Gregorian chant gives an elevated tone of voice to the texts of our sacred praises, conveying the special character of the words and the holy nature of what is being enacted and undertaken.

Gregorian chant is holy.

Gregorian Chant The first of these premises is that Gregorian chant is the official music of the Roman Church — a rich gift from history and the foundation of all Western music.

Of course the ideal source to which we aspire is the Graduale Romanum itself, the single most important book for any Catholic choir and the definitive source of Gregorian chant.

Chant Made Simple, by Robert M. Fowells, is a beginner's guide to Gregorian chant.

Ranging in age from twenty - one to sixty, they have toured the world singing everything from Gregorian chant to Borniansky.

It is appropriate for a German to be profound on Church music, and, like many of us, he can not explain why the clear order of the Second Vatican Council on music has been turned on its head: «Gregorian chant should be given pride of place in liturgical services.»

As we know, in most Catholic churches in Europe this has become, «Gregorian Chant will never be heard; the most common will be pop music of the 1960s.»

He'd make hundreds of handshake connections at community events, then find solitude well past midnight in his condo or office, immersing himself in paperwork, books, Gregorian chants or Armenian liturgical music.

As a result of the council, modern music and local languages - including English - replaced Gregorian chants and Latin prayers in many churches.

The power of the book lies in its sustained, intimate linking of concept and context just as Bonhoeffer once remarked that no one had the right to sing Gregorian chants without praying for Justice for the Jews.

Having discovered Gregorian chants and books of icons at the library, I had wondered at the purity and variety of the liturgies and the richness of the art.

The result resembles Byzantine - Gregorian chants, played by stringed instruments accompanied by flute.

This time, he investigates the murder of a choirmaster in a monastery that has produced a hit CD of Gregorian Chants.

During the 1950's he started to show the interest in repetitive practice, particularly archery and purification rituals, such as Gregorian chants, gradually developing his own rituals — extensive, repetitive, meditative hammering of nails, implementing the theoretical ideas into his artistic practice.

These galleries, too, are magnificent, inducing a prolonged aesthetic hum, akin to Gregorian chants.

Then I concentrated on the background music, which I had presumed earlier to be some sort of Gregorian chanting.