i am a 'shower only' singer but I long for Gregorian chant at Mass. I have a dream that a small group of like-minded people might get together and use wonderful sites such as this in order to learn and 'have a go' at singing this in church.
yep I started out listening to KISS and Led Zeppelin now I find Im falling in love with gregorian chanting. GOD sends us in some crazy directions. Musically I Dont know what I could use this for, Im a singer songwriter. But I just have to take a chants 😊
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea..." - Antoine de Saint Exupery An amazing quote
When the teacher said, see Its easy. I'm like, I cant even breath. It sounds easy but will never be until i understand the basics. For now, I guess I'll just sing divine office prayer out of order until God complains and decided to send me an angel who can teach me sing.
Thank you for this fine tutorial. This morning was my first day with the choir at my chapel. Every Sunday morning at 11am is the Missa Cantata. I am looking forward to the subsequents parts. Pax
As a child I sometimes plugged my ears and hummed when i didn't want to hear anybody or anything and Chanting kind of does the same thing shutting off the bad world.
Beautiful. I’m a Traditional Roman Catholic who loves Gregorian Chant but can’t sing that well. HOWEVER, I do play the typical Richter Tuned 10 hole Diatonic Harmonica. The “Blues Harp.” The harp in the key C Major is PERFECT for this! The F and A may sound a bit bluesy because the reeds have to be “bent” by player’s embouchre to achieve them. The rest are VERY sweet sounding. The instrument is truly a mouth organ i.e. “mund harmonica” in German! This post will definitely help my singing ability. Thank you for the post! Dominus Vobiscum
Wonderful resource here ! So thankful . I have always been mystified by the look of this very early music knew the words neumes but had never heard chrilisma .there seem to e no rests or stops until end of sentence or phrase .and of course did not know how to read these early often beautifully illustarted scores . the use warning notes and slurs here was most informative .Thankyou .Smart and good memory with your choristers there ! I need to use modes more in my music . Gut stuff here to digest and absorb !
All should. Not in order to change everyone but with music, backing up and revisiting can be very useful. Take any music classes you can and you'll develop a grasp you never thought could apply to your performance. It's all repertoire! Have you read up on sacred harp? That's another fun shape notation if interested.
Thank you for this very clear explanation! I also was going crazy trying to find the other parts of your tutorial. Please find a way to get them posted. I didn't find it dry, I like the reverent & historical references as well as the dry wit of Maestro Lieflander.
S.O.S. I am very interested and passionate about learning. Please, Maestro Lieflander, may you post the rest of the parts of this series, as soon as it is,( respectfully) possible. Thank you!!
I am brand new to my Latin Mass schola and ironically just found this video (divine intervention perhaps :)....loved the video, can't wait to see all the 4 parts. Keep up the good work! God Bless
Very nice! I am terrible at singing, but I would love to learn Chant so that i may add to the depth of my prayers to God. The only criticism i would have is to have the camera on the notes every time we are asked to sing along, you did this well throughout most of the video, but once or twice, especially the last time around, the camera view was a shot of the whole class, and as a person with an unremarkable short term memory, it was hard for me to remember some of the notes, much less the latin, as I tried to follow along. Other than that, bravo! I feel myself improving thanks to your wonderful teaching! On to parts 2 and onward i go.
Dear Schreibs Schrieber-- I live in Oak Ridge. I have a degree in voice and have sung Gregorian chant. I'm interested in chanting for fun. Comment back if you're interested in meeting to chant or to discuss.
i was wondering if there's a way I can join a Gregorian chant choir anywhere in the USA and sing with them and possibly build up to sing in concerts with them please let me know, Magna Canta being a favorite group of mine and of course enigma 😃
unfortunately I can't seem to get to parts 2,3 and 4 but would really like to listen! I am leading a 12th Century re-enactment society in plainsong and we are all really beginners so this would be extremely useful for us if anyone can help??
Very nice video. I am learning a lot and intend to watch and watch until I absorb the concept of Gregorian. One question. Is it really proper to sing sustained notes, for example, by emphasizing the hoo hoo hoo or haa haa haa. Is it just me who finds this way of singing a bit awkward? Is there another acceptable way of singing this lyric/note?
I was just wondering where can I join a chant class like this as I'm very interested in it to sing with a choir at a church and possibly perform with a Gregorian choir for a concert etc. please let me know as I love this music, and my influences are enigma and Magna Canta, please let me know and thank you so much I live in kernersville North Carolina
We were excited to find this resource and sang our way through Part One. Following the link, however, reveals none of the remaining parts! Where did they go? Help!!!
Uwe Lieflander I'm glad I ran down the list of comments. I was starting to go mad thinking I had missed something. Can't wait for parts 2,3,and 4. I just ordered a "near fine" copy of Liber Usualis 1934.
Not only catholics like it, but orthodox christianos from Russia (and other countries) like gregoryans chants. Russian church has monodian (monophonics) meloys like byzantic traditional. Thanks a lot.
I was tought the S like in ''sum'' is never pronounced like a Z. That is something the Germans do... Like ts-aelis in stead of ch-aelis. Could you clarify that?
Teacher, one question: How do you know what chords to play, before such a writing? Does it relate the melody and accompany it to your taste? Do you have any scheme? Can everyone be less? Thank you in advance for your help, I will be watching your comments, Greetings from El Salvador, C.A.
Not gonna lie, I'm making a story, and even if it doesn't end up becoming a game, or a show, I still am wanting to make a song with Latin chants for the main villain, similar to the chants Sephiroth's theme, but different in its own way. I have the Lyrics written down, its just a matter of singing it, I just hope the neighbors don't think I'm a part of a cult. lol
Why not have the good guy chant for once? There is this catchy, war and victory-like chant tune: "Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat!" (Christ has conquered, Christ reigns, Christ commands!" You could just take the first line, before every battle of the hero, or the whole thing during battles, Due to its repetitive nature very memorable! Here is a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wCq8zMd69us.html
@@franck1685 I might have another one made, not for the main protagonist, but for a character that could be seen as very idealistic and self righteous, as if someone made a march for him.
Its alot more than that, to be Gregorian you have to be restrictive in the types of intetvals that you use or it will just be some random chant. Proper monosyllabic or polysylabic usage of proper intervals are required to make it sound right....and Cathedral reverb specifically lol
Yes, that might be the case. However, there is no perfectly established tradition in the enunciation of church Latin. Each country is convinced that their tradition is the correct way. Since this video was shot while a German pope was at the helm, any German slants win out. We are more right than others. Now, however, with a South American pope, the more Italian way could triumph. Then again, Pope Francis is probably not too much into Latin in general, and if asked, would probably refer us to the traditions established by Benedict XVI. Hope this helps. Uwe Lieflander.
@@miguelmarquez4192 I apologise for the late reply, but alleluia is excluded during Lent (yes, you cannot say it outside of Mass as well) is because, in my point of view, aside from fasting and abstinence, Lent is also a time of penance. In other words, Lent is a solemn season, and think about it; alleluia is to express joy and praise the Lord, so wouldn't it sound weird if you were to say "alleluia!" during a solemn season of penance?
I’m confused. Why does the music score only have four lines when regular sheet music have five. I think I need a lesson before this lesson. I was taught the lines are 5 counted from the bottom e g b d f and he spaces from bottom are f a c e. I’m lost before beginning.
Well, you are right, sort of. The whole idea of writing down music started around 1050 A.D. with ONE line. It then grew to 4, and that was good enough for the next 250 years. As there grew a desire to also notate instrumental music, the extended range required pushed the number of lines to 16 (in some cases). By around 1500 - 1600 it shrank back to 5, which is what you learned as a kid in your piano lessons. :o) Pfrof. Lieflander
Sometimes less is more. Here where the slave field hand blues music was birthed children and uneducated farm hands learned music with only one string at a time on their instruments. Musical instruments were made out of wooden cigar boxes, pots and pans, anything hollow and then added a bridge and wooden neck from a broom handle or plank of wood. They can be tuned to perfection and the different materials yield varying interesting qualities to the notes. Another instrument was just a wire on the side of the house with a rock as a bridge. The notes were changed by using a slide like a glass aspirin bottle or broken off neck of a wine bottle. A lot of these homemade instruments sound great and people even out electronic pick ups in them. Can make violins, base, guitars, anything with strings. The single stringed is called a diddly bo. It is actually easier to learn this way by adding one string at a time as opposed to sudden whole music theory at once and the untraditional styles yield a lot of interesting syncopation, alternate tunings, unusual chording and melodies. I looked up some of the four line Gregorian melodies and found there are different note assignments and types. So the music theory of this can become more complicated. The one I found was not the typical fa so la ti do either. Some of the note names were different. This is the first time for me to be exposed to this music theory. Thanks for the history lesson.
Great video and teaching method. Zumm. I disagree? It is sum. From the 1961 Liber Usualis reading and pronunciation of liturgical latin it states that we should be using the Roman style. "Our aim, in compliance with the wishes of his holiness Pius X, is to pronounce and speak Latin in the Roman Style so eminently suitable to Plainsong Many have never learned the Roman pronunciation or know it imperfectly. Besides its great importance in Plainsong it makes for that uniformity which inspired the Vatican Edition itself: Unus Cultus, Unus Cantus. We therefore give a list of the correct pronunciation of the vowels and consonants to which reference can be made in case of doubt; it is advisable to peruse it from time to time." it goes on to say "S is hard as in the English word sea but is slightly softened when coming between two vowels.eg. misericordia" So not even misericordia should get to the point of being a z as in mizericordia let alone sum end up as zum.
