Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There follows a terrific fortissimo "Jersualem" in all voices, which is followed by a gradual diminuendo as the tenors continue their nervous melody, the baritones subside down the scale, and the basses chant repeatedly an ever-quieter "Jerusalem." This structure is typical of the whole piece-rapid crescendos, gradual diminuendos, sudden shouts, and nervous bits of melody...
...most brilliant example of this modern school of choral music, which depends upon striking rhythm and purity of line for its effect, is Stravinsky's "Ave Maria." Steady, drum-like beat and sombre harmonies remind one of a Gregorian chant. In its simplicity lies its greatness...
Opening chorus of Pins end Needles declares its theme. A number of enthusiastic seamstresses change from work clothes to evening clothes, beamishly chant...
...Pass those November Hour Exams!" is the advice sung into the ears of Freshmen by worried parents and harried school principals every year at this time, and despite the monotony of the chant, it is sound counsel. For there can be no doubt that the instructors and section men take a general impression of every Freshman's work from the results of his first Hour Exams, an impression, be it good, bad, or indifferent, that is harder to change as the year wears on. But what those who watch others go into Hour exams for the first time fail...
Latin is not the only tongue in which Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. intone the solemn prayers and hymns of the Mass. In the byways of the faith, in many an obscure church, priests chant Greek, Rumanian, Arabic, Armenian. Slavonic and in many other details the rites they celebrate differ from those of Rome. Indeed, some of these priests may be married, provided they were wed before they became Catholic deacons. Named according to the rites they use. such non-Latin branches of Catholicism adhere to all dogmas, recognize the supreme sovereignty of the Pope...