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Further research into the Little Office of Our Lady.
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Further research into the Little Office of Our Lady.
After updating Brandt Lab and then Kids Chant I turned to the Little Office, and have updated the booklets again.
Someone asked for updated straight through recordings now that Paschaltide is behind us. In the morning I set up in the living room and recorded Matins and Lauds, Prime, Terce and Sext. In the afternoon I set up in the spare room and made some more recordings using a different camera which I haven’t used much before, covering psalmtones for...
The Udemy course is going well. It’s not my favourite way to buy courses though. I like to be able to download the videos and put them on my household intranet so they can be played without having to log in. Udemy does allow you to download videos, but it gives you very low resolution copies, which is great to...
I’ll bundle up the last three videos into this one last post. I sing these ones by myself, so they’re not nearly so interesting.
The third installment and the third hour of the day (more or less).
The next installment of the Little Office Marathon from last Saturday is the hour of Prime - named as the first hour of the day, so at sunrise.
Last Saturday I finally took the plunge and recorded myself singing all the hours of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s taken me a while to get around to editing them ready to upload, but here is the first installment.
Modes are a way of categorizing Gregorian chant according to the pitch the melody tends to orbit and where the melody finishes. The modes generally came after most of the chant, so sometimes some chant doesn’t totally fit a certain mode, or even seems to shift modality. This is more a thing with longer chant - like the Gradual at...
The Latin Prayer Podcast posted the Chaplet of St Michael Archangel in Latin
While the Little Office videos were so popular I put together this one for Vespers.