Using the first 2 Murray tones in the single-volume edition of the Liturgy of the Hours, I demonstrate how I go about chanting the Psalms. Give it a try! Turn your life into worship! Sanctify time!
Thank you so much!! From the time I was a child, I always wondered how the responsorial psalm singers at Mass knew how to put melody to any Psalm. Like they sounded similar depending on the Mass, but I couldn't figure it out. Today your video resolved this mystery!
I am so thankful for your teachings on chanting. It’s what God is leading me to do with my prayer time this season. Thank you for sharing this discipline that is not taught in most Christian churches. May the Lord Bless you and keep you in all His ways for your obedience and dedication.
Do you have sheet notation for the Jewish scale tones you have made? I’m not musically trained so I have no clue how to arrange the scale into a tone that would sound good, but I have always LOVED that sound and it would be amazing to apply it to the Psalms (which are of Hebrew origin anyway!)
Thank you for your help and instruction. However, I wasn’t able to follow entirely. It would help to get more of an intro to the book that you are using. Thanks again.
great video. also, what are the pitches of the "Jewish scale" that you played? interesting sound, i am a musician and can improvise or compose psalm tones on such scale for my personal use. thanks for your time.
Thank you brother! I pray the Divino Afflatu rubrics i guess it’s called. I have a question how or where can I learn the chant for Latin? Especially in that version.
Thank for watching. I learned from various liturgical guides including the one at the back of the liturgy or the hours. Plus I was cantor at my parish for some 12 years. God bless.
@@WatchersfortheSonofMan Thank you, I am in Ireland so perhaps things are done differently. I own the Divine Office Volumes I-III (there are four in America three in Europe) and at the back of mine there are no hymn sheets with notation. It's often difficult to know how to sing the hymn.
Can you advise me on how to go about finding a local group that gathers to worship this way. Is it only found in the Catholic House? Or is it best as a private form of worship only. Thank you so much.
Great thanks, Victor. Have they re-done the Office since the 70s? If I am praying with our priest (who often uses iBreviary), can we stay in-sync if I am using the one-volume edition from 1976?
Question: Why monotone? Basic speech is not monotone, so why use monotone as the default for chanting? Isn't the point of chant to raise the action above mere reading or speaking? Yet basic speech is more fine than the monotone sections of chant. This is especially true when heard by others. I realize this video is primarily about devotional chanting, but the point remains that listening to monotone chanting is distinctly less pleasant than listening to regular speech patterns. So, why not use other tones for those sections of each line and the prayers which are here presented in monotone? Hearing or chanting - - - / \, is fine, but hearing or chanting - - - - - -- - -- -. Is less pleasant than just saying it normally.
I have been doing some research on WHY Christian churches (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and others) sing parts of all the liturgy. It is clear that part of the answer is this tradition that comes from Judaism, and the psalms are evidence of that. I am wondering how much came from Mithraism (the religion where many parts of the mass came from).
