Sentences with phrase «sweet chants of»

St Augustine wrote in his «Confessions» «I was deeply moved by the sweet chants of your church»; they were still being sung in the churches 700 years later during the Norman invasion; they were still being sung in the priest holes of England in the seventeenth century; these same chants were sung at Masses celebrated during two world wars.

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Though Westerners were first scandalized by their omnipresence in society, «their sweet chanting,» as one Western observer put it on a visit to Constantinople in the twelfth century, «the mingling of the voices, the heavier [male] with the light [eunuchs»], softened the hearts of the Franks.