Choir – Art of Singing As One Voice, Part 1 Mystic Origins
The Christian church as it became organized, discovered singers collectively gather courage to perform as well as gain momentum to give outstanding performances
Hymnody
The Schola Cantorum – Singing Songs of Praise as One Voice
In the early Christian church creating songs of praise, devotion and thanksgiving, reflected the beauty of the cosmos. When accompanied by dance movements and hand clapping, from the fourth century onward, rhythmical hymnody took the lead. Aurelius Ambrose (St Ambrose c337 – 397) descended from an ancient Roman family. He…
William Byrd’s Supreme Testaments in Western Music
By the time of Pope Gregory 1 (540 – 604), there was a distinct appreciation of fine singing and a genuine regard for the beautiful voice. Pope Gregory re-organized the liturgy and its music, influencing the establishment of an schola cantorum, a choir that executed psalmody, the singing of psalms…
The Twelfth Century Awakening and Songs of Courtly Love
The courtly love song sung by a languishing lover to his lovely lady proclaimed that although their love was a secret, because convention required it to be, he was content to let her know she was the sole mistress of his heart.
Sound of Music: Poets Celebrate Creation Psalms – Polyphony
The European medieval mind concerned itself with matters of the soul harmony & music as major aspects of the kósmos, a system centred on the earth & human race