The Gregorian Chant. Share full article. From Donahoe's. Oct. 2, 1898; ... Its tones have been the foundations-of the best hymns and anthems, ...

More recent research indicates that Gregorian chant has its roots in the early 4th century, when desert monks would chant all 150 psalms. The practice of chanting scripture and liturgical texts ...

BETHLEHEM, Conn. — On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit ...

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“Gregorian chant should have the first place in musical liturgy,” William Mahrt, the president of the Church Music Association of America, told McClatchey Newspapers. “[It’s] the ...

These chants and their varying frequency levels of tones, “were believed to impart tremendous spiritual blessings when sung in harmony during religious masses,” the article continues.

Real Gregorian chant is, first and foremost, a form of prayer, based on the Psalms and other ancient texts. It has been “sung over centuries and centuries,” said Folsom, and to monks, “chant ...

In Gregorian chant, ... For instance, the following example from Psalm 21 shows a letter like a "T" over some neumes. This "T" refers to tenete, which means to hold and emphasise.

Gregorian chants generally don't have too much in common with rock music. Sure, sometimes they set a brooding tone in an intro to a doom metal song, but rockers generally scream, growl, wail or sing.

Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...

Monastic movements recite the full Book of Psalms in regular cycles, and the medieval traditions of psalters, breviaries, and books of hours, and indeed Gregorian chant, are based on readings of ...