Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust and brutality-how did it happen that, from all this, there should come the Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals, the poems of Prudentius, the commentaries and histories of Bede... St. Augustine's City...
Tonight students won't have to march, chant or demonstrate to let University officials know how they feel about Harvard changing its investment policy towards South Africa. Instead, they will be able to speak directly to the committee that advises the Corporation on ethical questions in investment policy...
With 3:45 remaining last night, the fans at Bright Career started to chant, "We want Cornell! We Want Cornell!" They had had enough of this assemble of chippers and diggers called Princeton. And, at that point, Princeton had certainly had enough with the Harvard hockey fans and the Harvard hockey team...
Zimmermann's score is derived from a single twelve-note row containing all the musical intervals, but still has room for such disparate elements as Gregorian chant, Bach chorales and, during a dance number, an anachronistic rock band. Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercar-another explicit resemblance to Wozzeck...
...picturesque Japanese island of Ikitsuki, where the ways of farmers and fishermen die hard, two old men squat before a home altar and chant prayers carefully entrusted to them by their ancestors. The ritual is intense and moving. But something is askew. The rite is partly Buddhist, partly Christian. The language sounds odd, a sort of pidgin Latin. And what do the ancient prayers mean? One of the worshipers admits, "I don't understand a word of this...