Chants

[dairygirl4u2c]

what's the coolest chants out there?
gregorian is like a genre of chants right?
should i look for "bands" or groups of some kind or

this doesn't have to be in the debate table.. but this is my home at phatmass so. plus it could turn into a debate. and if it does, it may help determine which really is the coolest.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Try the Monks of Solemnes

[Knight of the Holy Rosary]

Those guys are great!

[Anything4Him]

Gregorian Chant refers to the many many many chants Pope St. Gregory the Great wrote. It would most likely be found under Renaissance music... or Sacred Music.

I write chant for my church... none of it pubished or copyrighted... its just something i like to do.

Chant is super hard tho, when you really get into it.

TUCKER

[Starets]

The Solesmes congregation of Benedictines do the best job of chants, bar none. Especially good are recordings from Solesmes itself and also Fontgombault. Also good are the monks of Bec in France.

[Mateo el Feo]

Just for fun, here's a few of my favorite non-Gregorian Chant CDs...just 'cause I like to be different:
1) Mozarabic Chant: [url="http://www.amazon.com/Chant-Mozarabe-Cathedrale-century-Ensemble/dp/B00000079Y/sr=1-2/qid=1169977484/ref=sr_1_2/102-0087848-9919312?ie=UTF8&s=music"](link)[/url]

2) Maronite Chant: [url="http://www.amazon.com/Chant-Traditionnel-Maronite/dp/B000027O5X/sr=8-45/qid=1169975453/ref=sr_1_45/102-0087848-9919312?ie=UTF8&s=music"](link)[/url]
(Also, see: [url="http://www.keyrouz.com/)"]http://www.keyrouz.com/)[/url]

3) Coptic Chant: [url="http://www.amazon.com/Coptic-Liturgies-Ensemble-David/dp/B000025AC8/sr=1-1/qid=1169977451/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0087848-9919312?ie=UTF8&s=music"](link)[/url]

[SJRod55]

I find all the chants are so relaxing and enable me to clear my mind and think clearly about my prayers and preparation for confession. The chants allow you to become one with your spiritual side and can focus your mind on your soul and your inner most self. A variety of chants allows you to experience different 'feelings' whilst keeping you focused.

[ovenbird03]

I listen to the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos when doing homework...actually I'm listening to the right now. So beautiful! It makes me want to travel to a really old monastery or castle made of stone, lit only my candlelight, and listen to the monks chant in the middle of the night It is so hauntingly beautiful and reverent.

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='Blessed Imelda Pray for Us' post='1179761' date='Jan 29 2007, 08:51 PM']
I listen to the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos when doing homework...actually I'm listening to the right now. So beautiful! It makes me want to travel to a really old monastery or castle made of stone, lit only my candlelight, and listen to the monks chant in the middle of the night It is so hauntingly beautiful and reverent.[/quote]When the original CD of the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos was released, a companion book was also published [url="http://www.amazon.com/Chant-Origins-Practice-Healing-Gregorian/dp/0517700379/sr=1-20/qid=1170123526/ref=sr_1_20/102-0087848-9919312?ie=UTF8&s=books"](link)[/url] that gave a brief introduction to Gregorian Chant, as well as the entire Latin text of the CD, along with English translations.

[Cam42]

[quote name='Tucker M' post='1178133' date='Jan 27 2007, 08:32 PM']
Gregorian Chant refers to the many many many chants Pope St. Gregory the Great wrote. It would most likely be found under Renaissance music... or Sacred Music.

I write chant for my church... none of it pubished or copyrighted... its just something i like to do.

Chant is super hard tho, when you really get into it.

TUCKER
[/quote]

Ummm....your answer is incorrect on almost every sentence that you wrote in this post.

1. Pope St. Gregory didn't write chant. Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. With that being said, it is not Renaissance. Gregorian Chant influenced the development of polyphony, which, incidentally is more correctly understood as Renaissance music.

[b]Gregorian chant had a significant impact on the development of medieval and Renaissance music.[/b] Modern staff notation developed directly from Gregorian neumes. The square notation that had been devised for plainchant was borrowed and adapted for other kinds of music. Certain groupings of neumes were used to indicate repeating rhythms called rhythmic modes. Rounded noteheads increasingly replaced the older squares and lozenges in the 15th and 16th centuries, although chantbooks conservatively maintained the square notation. By the 16th century, the fifth line added to the musical staff had become standard. The bass clef and the flat, natural, and sharp accidentals derived directly from Gregorian notation.

2. Gregorian chant, or any plainsong for that matter is not hard. It is quite easy to sing as it is not polyphonic, but rather it is monophonic. There are certain modes which might be a little harder to sing than others, but compared to the difficulty of polyphony, it is quite simple.

3. The only thing that you can be counted as correct, is that your music is not copyrighted AND that Gregorian Chant is classified as Sacred Music.

[cmotherofpirl]

There are several lovely chants at youtube if you type in "Dominican".