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Further research into the Little Office of Our Lady.

  • Missing Piece of Vespers

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    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...

  • Gumroad

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    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...

  • Last leg of the Marathon

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    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.

  • Marathon part 3

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    The third installment and the third hour of the day (more or less).

  • Marathon part 2

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    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.

  • Marathon - singing all the hours in one day

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    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

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    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...

  • Video for Vespers

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    While the Little Office videos were so popular I put together this one for Vespers.