Word: chant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kelly, a performer and scholar of early music, is the winner of the American Musicological Society's Book of the Year Award for his 1989 publication, The Beneventan Chant...
Gregorian seems to have a trancelike effect on its fans. The Anonymous 4 is a New York City-based quartet of women who have developed a cult following for their authentic performances of Gregorian chant and other medieval music. Susan Hellauer, a member of the group, says, "The most common single comment we get from audiences is that they were 'transported.' " There is a certain irony here. Chant was composed to serve and honor spiritual texts, but it seems unlikely that its new fans are paying much heed to the Latin words. After all, would they really be out there...
...majority of Chant purchasers are ages 16 to 25, seemingly hooked on Gregorian's timeless, otherworldly quality. Angel has shrewdly given the album a New Age-ish appeal, with a Magritte-like cover painting of brown-robed clerics suspended in space and an ad campaign with the theme "Prepare for the Millennium." The basic appeal of the album, says Father Jerome Weber, a Catholic priest and an expert on chant, is "simplicity, purity and mysticism. There is an intuition of the beyond, both in the recording and in the way people are hearing...
...Germany -- during the 8th and 9th centuries. There may be as many as 11,000 Gregorian melodies, ranging from relatively simple psalm settings to elaborate tropes that were included in the Mass. The Second ^ Vatican Council's reforms, particularly the mandated use of vernacular instead of Latin liturgies, relegated chant to a few churches and religious communities like Santo Domingo de Solis that kept the old ways as best they could...
Classical Music: Look out, rap, here comes Gregorian chant...