Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 classical music CD  

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 Work  

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 classical music CD  

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 Work In 1994, who would have thought that a collection ...

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 classical music CD The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos became famous outside of religious circles in 1993 when a recording of their liturgical Gregorian chants unexpectedly climbed to ...

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 Work  

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 classical music CD Dirty Linen (6-7/96, p.65) - "...The music is soothing and inspirational and the voices brilliant in their harmonic qualities..." Sacred music became a widespread obsession for many listeners ...

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 Work  

Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3 classical music CD Floating enigmatically above the rarified pastures of the Billboard Top 10 (only recently visited by the THREE TENORS), CHANT is unquestionably the most remarkable chart success of 1994--selling in unparalleled numbers for a medieval recording. Perhaps the key difference is that where many previous releases of Gregorian chants were recorded in the studio by professional singers who specialize in early music, CHANT documents the work of actual monks in a medieval abbey--bathing their voices in the vast, reverberant soundstage of a church. And yet, given the musical and commercial triumphs of this obscure order of Benedictine monks from Spain, can an army of monk-habit brown-hooded copycats--chanting in divine unison--be far behind? The serene modal melodies which comprise CHANT are part of the surviving Latin liturgical tradition of the medieval Western church. Owing to the purported influence of Pope Gregory The Great, these melodies are commonly referred to as Gregorian chants, although many historians and musicologists dispute his firsthand involvement (and point to an ...