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5 days ago · Gregorian chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, used to accompany the text of the mass and the canonical hours, or divine office. Gregorian chant is named after St. Gregory I , during whose papacy (590–604) it was collected and codified.
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Following the ritual of the Requiem mass, we see that the chants are: the Introit antiphon (Requiem aeternam) with its psalm (Te decet hymnus), the Kyrie (from the Ordinary), the Gradual ("Requiem aeternam" another time) with the Tract ("Absolve Domine"), which is sung between the Epistle and the Gospel.
4 days ago · The sequence is generally thought to have begun as a genre of poetry around the ninth century when Gregorian Chant was flourishing and spreading throughout Europe. A signature element of chant of that era was a flowery, artistic expression on the last syllable of the Alleluia, which extended over several moving notes — a technique known as a ...
1 day ago · James Jacobs. Share: This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first performance of the Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi. The premiere took place under the direction of the composer at St. Mark's Church in Milan on Friday, May 22, 1874, one year to the day after the death of Alessandro Manzoni, to whose memory the work is dedicated.
1 day ago · The Introit, which begins with the words “He fed them with the finest of the wheat”, might seem more appropriate for Ember Wednesday, when the Gospel, John 6, 44-52, is taken from the passage known as the Bread of Life discourse. And indeed, St Thomas Aquinas would later borrow this same introit for the Mass of Corpus Christi.
2 days ago · The Tridentine Mass, [1] also known as the Traditional Latin Mass [2] [3] or the Traditional Rite, [4] is the liturgy in the Roman Missal of the Catholic Church codified in 1570 and published thereafter with amendments up to 1962. Celebrated almost exclusively in Ecclesiastical Latin, it was the most widely used Eucharistic liturgy in the world ...
