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The Alleluja Mass: history and practice Print E-mail

Alleluja.jpgHistory

Hallelujahs or allelujas date back to the late fourth century. The following centuries saw their developpment, coinciding with a period of Byzantine influence in Rome.

Originally, the Hallelujah is an hebraic acclamation. Among Jews, it was used with a score of psalms called Alleluja psalms (104 to 106, 110 to 118, 134 to 135, 145 to 150). This acclamation was initially linked with the consideration of the wonders of the Lord, which makes it a cry of joy.

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Video tutorials on gregorian chant Print E-mail
Didacticiel1.pngThose tutorials contain some basic notions of gregorian chant, together with practical applications for choir singers.

It is an interesting and, to some extent, very useful pedagogical means. Yet a limited one. There is actually no better training into gregorian chant than a vivid, face to face interaction between teacher and pupil. Training sessions are thus the best option.

Meanwhile, watching these tutorials may help you improve your knowledge of gregorian chant.

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Entering the Holy Week on the right foot Print E-mail

Trinite.jpgHere are a few tools specifically designed for the Holy Week:

• First of all a book gathering all the ceremonies according to the 1955 setting, as well as the 1962 missal, together with translations in French - not figuring in the Liber usualis (commonly called the "800").

• For those who sing the Matines of the Holy Days, the mozarabic tones of Jeremiah's lamentations (a PDF booklet that may be directly printed in duplex mode).

• For choirs, a summary of the minimum repetitions for the main ceremonies. 

• And finally, should you want to listen to the singing of the Passion.

Happy Holy Week to all!
 
A summary of Holy Days chanted parts Print E-mail
 

This summary is meant for choirs which, when entering the Holy Week, are faced with an exceptional program, in terms of both quantity and quality.

We give here some tips on how to choose parts: essential ones, and those to be prefered in order to optimize time and efforts.

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Septuagesima Time Print E-mail
With Septuagesima, we definitely abandon Christmas Time to enter the Easter cycle. External rites peculiar to this new liturgical season are: suppression of the Glória at mass, deletion of joyful Alleluias everywhere in the celebration, even at Deus in adjutorium meum intende, to which it virtually adheres, purple ornaments. All this is singularly evocative and sufficient to characterize the atmosphere in which the liturgy will now take place: it is a spirit of penance that will - increasingly so as we approach the holy celebration of the mystery of the Lord's passion - be the hallmark of the Church prayer.
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