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This work is based on the Gregorian Chants of the Requiem Mass. It was directly inspired by the Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the 2012 Sacred Music Colloquium in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Peter Philips: “Polyphony shouldn’t be sung with absolute straight tone—that is not real singing!”
It’s hard for us to remember that the famous composers were not hired as such—they were hired as singers.
“Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a King. For this was I born, and for I this came I into the world…”
Lyrics from GIA Worship IV Hymnal: “Who is this who eats with sinners, calling luckless losers winners?”
A thought from Dietrich von Hildebrand
The Church Music Association of America is pleased to announce the third Winter Sacred Music Workshop for Chant and Polyphony.
Every single piece has free rehearsal videos for your choir members!
“…be ye filled with the holy Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord…”
“Fr. Ryan told me he’s amazed at how the liturgy has been transformed, and that never in seminary did he believe this kind of liturgy would be possible at a Montana parish.”
Fr. Guido Maria Dreves was a Jesuit priest who died in 1909.
A thoughtful reading of an icon at the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, Egypt
November 2nd will be here soon!
“Let Thy healing power, O Lord, in mercy deliver us from our waywardness and cause us ever to cleave to Thy commandments…”
A little more on the triumphal chant inspired from Roman victory celebrations.
