Greggie Chant
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Greggie Chant
Ah, Gregorian chant. How relaxing. I remember back in the 9th grade I took a Music Appreciation class. We started studying Ars Antiqua (The Old Art) and lo...Gregorian chant. It was so cool, that I focused myself to learning how to read Gregorian chant. Such an interesting time I had learning that, because then, I had just started learning to read music (I was an ear player before then). In our books, we came across this one chant manuscript called III: Aux Fetes Sollenelles (I think that's how its spelled). I had just before this got my hands on a copy of a chant...simply called Kyrie III. Well guess what...those two (manuscript and music) were the same thing, just transcribed into a different key. It was so cool. Then I remember back in my 11th grade World History class, my teacher had a piece of an original Gregorian chant book, which I started humming for him. Being well-versed in all aspects of music, he was astounded. I recommend this as a great hobby to anyone whose interested.
The best example is Ray Steven's "Haircut Song", Opus 63, 3rd stanza:
Well, when I stepped into the shop, I realized immediately that I was dealing with a born-again barber.
Don't see too many barber shops with a steeple, had an organ in the corner, a choir, an usher led me to the barber chair.
Barber walked in, started saying grace: "Oh Lord, for these haircuts we are about to receive, may we be truly thankful.
Dominus possum pax probiscus, post mortem, et tu brute, puella carborundum".
He was sorta half-Baptist, half-Catholic...kind of a Cathtist.
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To me, the ultimate album was 1978's Smokey Censer in the Smokies album, featuring the Waldco Bros. & Smiley with the St. Luke's Chorale.
I was moved to tears by Tone IV Magnificat Blues, and whose foot wouldn't tap to the Exultamus Breakdown? But the opus supreme, bar none, was Coy Waldco's virtuoso Dobro work on Pike County Alleluia.
I was moved to tears by Tone IV Magnificat Blues, and whose foot wouldn't tap to the Exultamus Breakdown? But the opus supreme, bar none, was Coy Waldco's virtuoso Dobro work on Pike County Alleluia.
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I actually do try to play along to Perotin and other early stuff on my flute. It's usually in the wrong key though
I'd Love to get four fluters or whistlers to play Viderunt Omnes. How cool would that be?
Or maybe two extremely talented UP players could do it using regs.
I'd Love to get four fluters or whistlers to play Viderunt Omnes. How cool would that be?
Or maybe two extremely talented UP players could do it using regs.
OOOXXO
Doing it backwards since 2005.
Doing it backwards since 2005.
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My current personal fave is "Grunt - Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinnko de Silo, Discovered, Translated, notated & Illuminated by Sandra Boynton"
Pure porcine perfection.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076110 ... 5&v=glance
Pure porcine perfection.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076110 ... 5&v=glance
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