Word: gregorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ARMAND E. SINGER West Virginia University Morgantown, W. Va. ¶ Reader Singer is right. At the time of Cervantes' death, Protestant England was using the Julian (Old Style) calendar, which was ten days behind Spain's-and the rest of Catholic Europe's-Gregorian (New Style) calendar...
...gave Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode a more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...
...proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers' chorus and the well-loved carols in which they all would join...
...hundred knows its grammar and syntax, not one in a thousand knows its esthetics." Good church music, the professor believes, besides being written by the best composers, must either: 1) be set in a musical style that does not sound at all like secular music (i.e., the unaccompanied Gregorian chants-still sung in many a Catholic and Anglican church); or 2) have its secular elements "assimilated and purged of their worldly connotations" (i.e., the cantatas, Passions and organ works of Bach...
...money seemed able to cure his son, a hopeless epileptic since his head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...