Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calif, gathered in mass meetings, with all of each town's choirs, orchestras and clergymen massed on the platform. They heard all these peal out "I Love to Tell the Story." In the midst of each assemblage they saw a little band of consecrated folk stand up to chant: "Now we dedicate ourselves anew to this high service, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength...
...with thrones for the celebrants of the mass and surmounted by a tabernacle of rare woods, owned by the Baltimore Sisters of Mercy and said to be the one before which the first Maryland mass was sung. In the stands behind the altar sat 10,000 Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed on a nearby hill when Archbishop Curley held aloft the consecrated particle...
...tone of limitless melancholy, like the meaning of the wind on a rainy autumn night around the eaves of a high garret, a far-off church clock resounds. Again the throbbing abruptly falters, again the imaginary pressure is relieved, and then once more the night resumes its monotonous chant...
...harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service, as I do at our German Communion, he chases me on the organ, keeping about one note behind me. Should intoning be accompanied? He wants to play fancy chords while I read the Scripture Lessons, and I find it hard to stop him. What shall...
...long tin shed. On its floor piles and piles of brown leaves, rows and rows of piles. Down the long rows slowly moves an auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks the monotony of the chant: "Sold to this company" or "Sold to that." Thus every autumn since before the Civil War the U. S. tobacco crop has gone to market. Last week, however, singing auctioneers were silenced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina...