Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the
Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."
Among the contributors:
Also past contributors:
Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
archiveBen, schola director and organ student |
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Purchased the whole set over Christmas. Very "general audience" but quite well done. The Sixteen is one of my favorite groups.
Very "general audience" indeed… talking almost an hour about organum and never mentioning it't not stand-alone music but elaborate intonations for plainchant antiphones, oh well…
For those of us in the "general audience," the series is absolutely brilliant. It's introduced me to a whole musical world I wished I'd been told about earlier. Here's hoping that world will visit my parish soon, especially the part from 13th century Paris.
The problem with this is graduale&alleluia in organum setting takes about 20-30 min I think 😉 I'm studying medieval and rennaisance music and we've been doing this stuff regularly, but I haven't dared to use it at our parish yet.