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| | Gregorian chant - definition of Gregorian chant in Encyclopedia |
 | | Chant allows only one accidental on Ti (equivalent to Bb, but the actual pitch is variable) which adds complication to the 8 modes. | | | In all likelihood, chant is at least as old as the breakup of the western Roman Empire in the 5th century, but mutated into different forms in different regions until brought together into one unified repertory under Charlemagne. | | | Chant is commonly written on a staff similar to the modern 5-line-4-space staff, but the Gregorian staff has 4 lines and 3 spaces. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Gregorian_chant
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| | Chant - MSN Encarta |
| | Chant texts can be either sacred or secular, but the term usually refers to sacred liturgical music. | | | It is now called Gregorian chant after Pope Gregory I, known as the Great, who was active in collecting Roman chants, having them assigned specific places within the liturgy, and seeing that they were adopted by churches in other cities and countries. | | | In Spain, until about the 11th century, there was a chant repertory called Mozarabic chant, named after the Mozarab Christians who lived in Arab-dominated Spain during the Middle Ages. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761558300/Chant.html
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| | THE LITURGICAL CHANT ACCORDING TO THE CARPATHO-Rusyn TRADITION |
| | Chant, especially in the Byzantine Rite, became an expression of liturgical piety of the faithful, who used to come together in their churches not only for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, but also for their common prayers, offering to God their "sacrifice of praise" (Heb. | | | Liturgical chant became an integral part of Christian worship since Apostolic times in agreement with the admonition of St. Paul: "With gratitude in your heart sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God" (Col. 3:16). | | | In this way the style of chant at the Uzhorod cathedral was gradually introduced throughout the entire Eparchy of Mukachevo and, eventually, became a common heritage for all Rusyn eparchies in Europe and abroad. |
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http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/spirit/chant.htm
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| | Football chant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A large proportion of chants have the same tune as hymns, because hymns were traditionally sung before the start of all football matches in the late 19th and early 20th century. | | | Another melody for chants is that of the hymn Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer which goes "Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me now and ever more! | | | Very often chants are abuse directed at an opposition player, particularly if an incident has happened that has irritated fans of the other team, for example if the player has appeared to have cheated to get a penalty kick. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_chant
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| | Gregorian Association |
| | However, the performance of Anglican Chant continued to be influenced by the same rhythmic performance style until the twentieth century, when equalist rhythm was adopted in the wake of the influence of the monks of Solesmes. | | | The Association is now 130 years old; during this time it has sung and taught the chant as a living witness to the enduring value and beauty of the "true music of the church". | | | It is perhaps ironic that the group of Christians who have traditionally believed that scripture alone is necessary for salvation should not wish to use the chant for worship (although most of the chant is simply a musical setting of unaltered Biblical texts), but instead prefer to sing metrical hymns of recent composition. |
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http://www.beaufort.demon.co.uk/chant.htm
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| | Russian Znamenny Chant, Znammeny Chant, Znameny Chant |
| | Since the whole purpose of having the chant in church was to convey the holy liturgy in a beautiful and worshipful manner, it would not behoove a composer to treat the text lightly and conform it to a pleasing melody (as was the practice at this time in folk-songs). | | | Znamenny chant was the principal chant of the Russian Orthodox Church for the time Christianity was imported from Byzantine to roughly the late seventeenth century. | | | Joan L. Roccasalvo, "The Role of Religion in the Development of Znamenny-Russian Chant" in Diakonia, vol. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4612/znamenny.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Plain Chant |
| | The extended use and perfected rendering of plain chant, so ardently desired by Pope Pius X, will in its turn not only raise the level of religious music, and enhance the dignity of Divine worship, but also intensify the spiritual life of the Christian community. | | | This book has considerable importance, because in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Congregation of Rites, believing it to contain the true chant of St. Gregory, had it republished as the official chant book of the Church, which position it held from 1870 to 1904. | | | The so-called equalists or oratorists hold that the rhythm of plain chant is the rhythm of ordinary prose Latin; that the time value of all the notes is the same except in as far as their connexion with the different syllables makes slight differences. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12144a.htm
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| | Project: Chant! - Awakening Sound |
| | Chanting has for centuries been an integral part of many cultures and spiritual traditions throughout the world. | | | On the path of Bhakti Yoga, or the Yoga of devotion, chant plays a primary role and is a significant practice. | | | Chanting in the Yogic tradition is called Kirtan (pronounced Keer-tun), and the technique used is 'call and response', meaning the lead chanter first chants a line or two, which is chanted back by the participants, creating a mirror of sound and vibration which reflects back and forth between the two. |
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http://members.aol.com/projectchant/myhomepage/club.html
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| | Gregorian Chant: Archaic Relic or Relevant Revelation? Feedback |
| | And as far as finding the chant, you'd have to consult the chant books, Liber Usualis, etc. I'm sure it would probably be much easier contacting the music director at the church you heard it at and directly asking him or her. | | | The neatest thing that I wanted to share with you is that I am a United Methodist and Gregorian Chant is (obviously) not as 'big' with the Protestant's as it is with the Catholic's but I really love the fact that this is one of the things that our very different denominations have in common. | | | I was really intrigued by your in depth article, "Archaic Relic or Relevant Revelation?" Your paper's findings of the effects of chant on the physiology of its listeners, may pique the curiosity of some of the "locals" that otherwise wouldn't want to attend a "concert in a church". |
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http://chant.freeservers.com/feedback.html
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| | Chant Discography |
| | It is the monks of Solesmes who have provided the official chant books of the Catholic Church throughout the twentienth century. | | | The centre from which modern theories of mediæval chant performance have emanated is undoubtedly the Abbey of Solesmes in France. | | | Gregorian Chant is thought to be the 8th-9th century Frankish (in modern terms, French and German) version of the Roman chant. |
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http://www.beaufort.demon.co.uk/disco.htm
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| | Chant |
| | The prayer services are for the most part made up of the psalms from the Bible, which are chanted according to ancient tradition. | | | The music which we use is largely derived from the tradition of Gregorian Chant. | | | We have adapted many of the Gregorian melodies to fit the English language, although we do retain many of the chants with the original Latin texts. |
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http://www.christdesert.org/noframes/chant/chant.html
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| | Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director: A lay apostolate for chant? |
| | Maybe what's needed for a large-scale renaissance of chanted worship in the Roman Church is to have it tied to some sort of lay organizational structure. | | | The strategy of promoting chant for Mass would be much like the Holy Father's governance of the Church - forcefully gentle persuasion, but not coercion. | | | When the time comes that Gregorian chant and Latin is embraced once again by the Church, the Guild's members will be ready and will continue the tradition. |
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http://www.cantemusdomino.net/blog/archives/001004.php
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| | Amazon.com: Chant: Music: Gregorian Chant,The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos |
| | That the calm and the serenity conveyed by these chants, which have survived for approximately 1,500 years, is still relevant today, can be readily appreciated by the fact this recording stayed at the top of the best seller list an inordinately long period of time upon its release. | | | CHANT, the first (and famous) offering of nineteen tracks by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos (Spain), provides a warm and luminous glow of sound. | | | Of course, gregorian chant records had been around before, but they had not sold so well. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002SKX?v=glance
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| | Frequently asked questions about Byzantine Chant |
| | The chants used by the churches of Serbia and Bulgaria are modified descendants of the original Byzantine chant. | | | Byzantine Chant is used today in the Orthodox Churches of Greece, and in the Patriarchates of Constantinople, Antioch (Syria and Lebanon), Jerusalem, Alexandria (Egypt), and Romania. | | | Byzantine Chant shares certain characteristics with the Gregorian psalm tones, in that it is made up of eight tones, four of which are derived from the other four. |
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http://chant.theologian.org/byzfaq.html
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| | Gregorian Schola |
| | states that "the Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy; therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services." (sec. | | | On most chants the cantors (two or three singers) intone the chant, that is they sing the first several notes alone, so that by the time the rest of the choir joins in they have a sense of how the piece goes. | | | During the 1960s chant fell out of favor, but there has since been a resurgence: Witness the best-selling CD "Chant." Chant is an important part of the history and tradition of the Catholic Church. |
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http://comp.uark.edu/~rlee/chant.html
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| | Liturgica.com :: liturgical music, books and gifts - all major chant forms including Jewish, Byzantine, Gregorian, Baroque and Renaissance Sacred |
| | Chants for the Patronal Day Celebration of the Archangel: Byzantine chant in Romanian Orthodox tradition. | | | Liturgical Chant Treasures: A selected classic recording you may not be familiar with. | | | Books and religious music are available in a variety of categories, including Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Old Roman chant, Russian chant, Ambrosian chant, Mozarabic chant, Cistercian chant, Jewish chant, Armenian chant, Coptic chant, Bulgarian chant, Rumanian chant, Medieval sacred music, and Renaissance sacred music. |
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http://www.liturgica.com
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| | Vedic religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Vedic pantheon was interpreted as a unitary view of the universe with God seen as immanent and transcendent in the forms of Ishvara and Brahman, projected into various deities in the human mind. | | | Texts considered to date to the Vedic period, composed in Vedic Sanskrit, are mainly the four Vedas, but the Brahmanas, and some of the older Upanishads are also considered Vedic. | | | To the rishis, the hymns of the Rigveda and other Vedic hymns divinely revealed and they were rather "hearers", of divine revelation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_religion
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| | Gregorian Chant CD's |
| | Gregorian chant for each of the liturgies of the Bishops, The Doctors of the Church and The Saint of the Church. | | | This CD brings together for the first time 2 radically different spiritual expressions, Gregorian Chant and the devotional prayer of the rosary. | | | The chants on this CD are among the most useful and accessible in Gregorian repertory, and all of them are most appropriate for today's liturgy. |
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http://www.inhisname.com/MusicSection/Chant.htm
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| | Chant Links |
| | Cantores in Ecclesia: boys, girls and adults who specialize in Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony which is performed liturgically every Saturday evening for the solemn Latin Mass in St. Patrick Church in Northwest Portland. | | | The official page of the Monks of Solesmes, who were almost "single-handedly" responsible for restoring Gregorian chant (although in North American their books are available through | | | Gregorian Chant for the Church Year: Resurrexi, Easter, Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle --> |
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http://comp.uark.edu/~rlee/otherchant.html
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| | Chant |
| | Gregorian Chant focuses on one of the most beautiful and universally appealing aspects of traditional Christian faith, an art form upon which all the later, more elaborate music of Western civilization was built. | | | Christian liturgical chant obviously has a proud and specifically religious significance for an enormous audience worldwide, especially the more than 57 million Roman Catholics currently residing in the United States, many of whom still remember the use of Latin in their community churches as an ordinary part of the Mass. | | | Gregorian Chant: Songs Of The Spirit allows viewers to escape, however briefly, the frenetic milieu of the 20th century and enter the contemplative serenity of cloistered medieval monasteries. |
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http://www.whyy.org/CHANT.HTML
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| | A Selection of Chant Recordings |
| | The Byzantine chant has survived in manuscripts, while local traditions have continued to this day in the Middle-East (Armenian, Syrian, Coptic) and of course in the Orthodox Slav countries. | | | During the Carolingian renaissance (750-850), one specific form of chant probably elaborated in Rome was introduced throughout Western Europe; it developed and progressively displaced other chants: this is Gregorian chant, which remains the official chant of the Catholic church. | | | The Ensemble Organum has specialized in "the other chants." A lot of their work has relied on tracing Eastern influences, and the result is mesmerizing. |
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http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/beginlst/chant.htm
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| | The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies - OCHS - India's Upanisads in a Theological Perspective |
| | Encompassing a broad spectrum from the chanting of ancient Vedic priests to the melodic bhajans of modern day devotees, Hindu religious chant and music are firmly rooted in theological principles of sacred sound found throughout the Vedic and Hindu scriptures and associated with spiritual power and ecstasy from the earliest times. | | | Beginning with the chanting of Om, a bhajan session proceeds with invocations in Sanskrit in honor of a guru, master, or deity, followed by sequences of bhajan songs that reflect the group's distinct or eclectic religious outlook, sometimes punctuated by short sermons or meditative recitations of Sanskrit verses from scriptures. | | | The Hindu practice of formal recitation and chanting of sacred utterances in Sanskrit is traceable to the Vedic period (ca. |
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http://www.ocvhs.com/edu_progs/lectures/hindumusic.html
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| | Vedic chant -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The Vedic chant of southern India uses a form of accentual notation: a dot beneath or above a syllable of text indicates a lower or upper reciting pitch. | | | religious chant of India, the expression of hymns from the Vedas, the ancient scriptures of Hinduism. | | | The earliest collection, or Samhita, of Vedic texts is the Rigveda, containing about 1,000 hymns. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074946
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| | Chant & Yoga Workshop |
| | Honoring Nature and Spirit: Vedic Chant and Yoga Meditation: The themes of Vedic Chant bring our attention to the wonder and vastness of the natural universe and the forces operating in it. | | | But it is the act of chanting itself that brings life to these texts as well as to the person listening and reciting. | | | Chant in Yoga Practice: Chanting is a powerful tool for uncovering and expressing the human spirit. |
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http://www.viniyogany.com/Pages/ChantYogaWorkshop.htm
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| | Byzantine Chant Studies Page |
| | Although its main emphasis is on the study of Gregorian chant in the West, this site also places that tradition within the context of early Christian liturgics in general, both East and West. | | | They have a very handsome sample taken from a recently published book of the Akathist Hymn. | | | The foundation of chanting well is to have good texts from which to chant. |
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http://chant.theologian.org
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| | Chanting |
| | Adhyayanam is the Sanskrit name for Mantra and Vedic Chant taught within personal and group meetings between students and a teacher. | | | Vedavalli was established at the request of TKV Desikachar and follows the Mantra and Vedic Chant teachings taught to him by his teacher | | | Vedic chanting is a precise discipline that can be refined over many years, but it is mistake to lose the heart of the practice for the sake of pedantry. |
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http://www.livingyoga.org.uk/Chanting.htm
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| | veda |
| | All the Vedic mantras with their musical rendering were remembered by reflecting on the eight letters: "A, Ka, Cha, Ta, Tha, Pa, Ya, Sa." The great seers fostered the Vedas by the use of these letters. | | | Vedic religion was sacrifice-centred, ritualistic and originally polytheistic. | | | The hymns of the Rg Veda (R.g Veda Samhitâs: 10522 verses - Rig or Royal Veda- "sacred hymn or verse"; liturgial manual of the hotr., chief sacrificial priest) The Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas. |
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http://www.salagram.net/harernam-veda.html
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