Leonora Carrington - Gregorian chant, 1959

The Sisters of Aquinas chant Adoro Te Devote

“Devoutly I adore thee, O hidden Deity”

Music a millennium old

Fragment of a missal, a book containing the texts for celebrating Mass, from approximately 1000 CE. The smaller text is a passage of Gregorian chant with neumes, an early form of musical notation.

MS Typ 773

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Put your [Guidonian] hands in the air!

midwinter is heinous but also. Wishing everyone a very happy tolkien/berserk/medieval epic poetry/WW1 movies/dungeon synth/ethereal wave/freak folk/darkwave/illuminated manuscript/dostoyevsky/bulgakov/gregorian chant/long wandering walks through the fog/doing your makeup weird/hot tea season

The traditional music and performance of El cant de la sibil·la (The Sibyl's Song) has gone further than the walls of the churches where it has been sang for centuries and has inspired many modern Mallorcan singers and musicians such as Maria del Mar Bonet or, more recently, Júlia Colom (in this video you can see a snipet of her performing the role of Sibyl in Valldemossa, Mallorca). Júlia is a singer-songwriter who makes both urban music and songs based on traditional Mallorcan music.

Video posted by Alex Sobron Jewellery, who made the golden fingertips.

Find out more about the Sibyl's Song in this post.

Why has no one made a Lofi Girl parody for “Lofi Gregorian Chants to Study the Bible and Illuminate Manuscripts to?”

any gregorian chants recs? (i seriously want to listen to some)

thank you anon! firstly you can get some gregorian chants just by searching for them on youtube (i haven't tried spotify). anyway onto the actual recs, most gregorian chants sound pretty similar and i find that they're best taken in an hour long playlist in a dark room

anyways

i would recommend 'sub tuum praesidum' for your go to generic chant, but a personal favourite of mine is allegri's 'misere mei, deus' even though it isn't really a gregorian chant. it was so loved by the pope it was only played in the vatican for two hundred years or so.

again, not really a gregorian chant but 'gaudete' is excellent if you want something with a more distinct tune

also the angel's hymn, which is the oldest ever carol, dating back to 129 ad

if you're interested in the more christmassy chants, i would recommend the 'verbum caro' plainchant and 'nesciens mater' by jean mouton, both medieval. they're very gregorian sounding even if i'm not sure that they actually are. they're pretty old anyway.

finally, anything by byrd and tallinn is always a pretty safe bet! thanks for the ask, i hope i've recommended at least one thing you'd like

‘A Violent Dog’

started my attempt at producing this on an ipad, wanted to share the buildup point of the song so far :)

this is where i want to start posting my music from now on :))

❤️ Gregorian - Halleluja ❤️

Listening to Gregorian chant for 48 consecutive hours would probably fix me, tbh

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Cover by Gregorian

Original by Green Day (2004)

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Tracklist:

Opening Suite • Truth and Reconciliation Suite • Brothers In Arms • Enough Dead Heroes • Perilous Journey • A Walk In the Woods • Ambient Wonder • The Gun Pointed At the Head of the Universe • Trace Amounts • Under Cover of Night • What Once Was Lost • Lament For Pvt. Jenkins • Devils... Monsters... • Covenant Dance • Alien Corridors • Rock Anthem for Saving the World • The Maw • Drumrun • On a Pale Horse • Perchance to Dream • Library Suite • The Long Run • Suite Autumn • Shadows • Dust and Echoes • Halo

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"Pange lingua" (prayer incl.) – Hymn in honour of the Blessed Sacrament – Gregorian Chant

Bladee and Medieval music

So yeah drainers I've made the weirdest link in my head. I DON'T KNOW if it's intentional from B-man but a very cool person told me about old ahh music and I've made connections.

So in medieval music and especially in gregorian chants, melodies used to always come back on the root (speaking about intervals). For example if the song was in the key of C, each sentence used to end up on the C note, which creates a very pleasant sentiment of predictability but in a good way. It made sens because there were a lot of limitations for what was authorized and acceptable in music.

Back to Bladee, when you listen to his early stuff, you can hear the exact same thing. On his album Eversince especially (2016) ,each sentence always ends on the root, it has the same predictability than gregorian chants and it creates a similar feeling : melodies don't go very far from home and it's pretty nice.

But bladee is a cloud rap artist with a lot of autotune, a weird voice and wintery, glassy, glittering sinths on the production. It makes his music sound completely out of time, very modern with the cloud rap side of things but at the same time outdated, ancient. And these melodies also convey a feeling of isolation, coldness, sadness as if Bladee didn't have the energy to sing otherwise. So we have similar ways of constructing melodies with the voice but 600 years apart, and the feelings the same thing give are completely different each time.

It's quite impossible to know if he did it intentionnally, or if this post even makes sense but my friend agreed with me and she's based so I'm right.

Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor,

Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.

Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed,

Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy.