tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post2042797685161322921..comments2023-10-15T09:36:12.013+01:00Comments on Countercultural Father: Modality of ChantBen Trovatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299230935468606845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-13681738037329402062013-04-10T11:59:39.366+01:002013-04-10T11:59:39.366+01:00PVD
Thanks for your comment. I agree that singi...PVD <br /><br />Thanks for your comment. I agree that singing the appropriate Gloria Patri (and also of course, the relevant Psalm tone, also found early in the Liber) is valuable.<br /><br />However, finding similar chants is even more so. For example, i am just starting to learn the chant for the Introit of 5th Sunday after Easter (which I will be singing in a few weeks) and using this approach have found it is very similar indeed to the 10th Sunday after Pentecost (iirc - Liber not in front of me as I type). Clearly, once one knows one, learning the other is very much easier indeed.Ben Trovatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15299230935468606845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-25891358083863508262013-04-09T21:46:11.628+01:002013-04-09T21:46:11.628+01:00Interesting post Ben, thanks.
If struggling to &#...Interesting post Ben, thanks.<br /><br />If struggling to 'tune-in' to the modality, I more than often quickly chant the relevant Gloria Patri from the front of the Liber. It particulalry helps in an emergency - even if you sing it in your head! <br /><br />In the Parish where I sing (I am the choir(!)) I always use the Graduale for the Introit and Communion and sometimes the Offertory but more often than not I use the Graduale Simplex for the Offertory chant with a couple of verses of the relevant Psalm.<br /><br />I find a lot of the Offertories are either too long or too difficult for me and for some reason I also really struggle with Mode IV (which quite a lot seem to be written in). I think I developed a complex because the late, great Dr Mary Berry once told me that it was the most difficult mode to sing.<br /><br />I should clarify (before any rubricians accost me viciously) it is the Ordinary Form of Mass and not the EF. If singing for an EF Mass and the Offertory is too difficult then I'm afraid I resort to using Rossini and his psalm tones! Sorry!<br /><br />I just wish more people would develop an interest in the Chant. I applaud parishes like St MM in Brighton and OLotR Blackfen but they do have a more ready, willing and able base to draw singers from, being nearer to the Capital. I'm afraid here in the wiles of the Liverpool Archdiocese - that 'nada' interest! So we have to stick with Masses VIII and XVIII.Parate Viam Dominihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11737598679339995802noreply@blogger.com