Topic: Plainsong?

[lincsyokel2]

Im curious to know if anyone else is into Gregorian Chant/Plainsong

I sometimes stick it on, its very relaxing.

This sort of thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?fmt=18&gl=DE&hl=de&v=LJEfyZSvg5c


This is a chant wrutten by a nun in about 1100 AD. I bet she'd be staggered to know her music was still being performed nearly a thousand years later.

[Kleftiwallah]

Do Led Zeppelin do a cover version ? ? ?    ???   Just askin'.   8)   Cheers,    Tony.

[grawrc]

I went to a convent school and we often sang plainsong in the choir for the many, many services in the convent church. I loved it - particularly with the acoustics in a church or cathedral.

Loved Led Zeppelin too but after school and at weekends! ;)

[Aden Roller]

It's lovely.... I can feel the cool, calm of lofty ceilings and solid stone.
Quite beautiful.. open views across the countryside.... sometimes I really enjoy the chance to think and be alone.


Haven't the foggiest what the words mean but the sound is........

                           .................now you've got me reaching for my CD "Favourite Gregorian"  :)

[Melbourne12]

We love Gregorian chant, and have a collection of it on vinyl and CD.

[macmac]

beautiful,thankyou for sharing  :)

[betula]

Living quite liteally in the shadow of our beautiful cathedral,I can pop in any time and hear wonderful music.

We have a super choir and I think we are going to be broadcast live on radio 4 at Christmas time.

We have a lot of visiting orchestras and a good tip for you.............pop in on the afternoon of the performance and you can sit and listen to the  rehearsals for free.

[Aden Roller]

Where is that betula?

(No clues from your profile as far as I can see)

[lincsyokel2]

Well the three finest Cathedrals in the land are Westminster Abbey, St Pauls and Lincoln Cathedral, with York Minster in fourth place.

So he must live in York, Westminster, Lincoln or City of London   8)

[Aden Roller]

Well the three finest Cathedrals in the land are Westminster Abbey, St Pauls and Lincoln Cathedral, with York Minster in fourth place.

So he must live in York, Westminster, Lincoln or City of London   8)

I still like our "local"... Chichester.  :)

[betula]

And he is a she  ;D

[Aden Roller]

And he is a she  ;D

I always think "They" is usually a safe bet when "he" or "she" is unknown.  ;)  ;D

[lincsyokel2]

Lincoln Cathederal is falling apart. They discovered a few years ago that the flying buttresses that were supposed to be holding up one end of the  Octagon Choir



wernt actually attached to anything. Then they discovered the Rose Window in the West End



was only staying upright and in its frame by the grace of god, and had  do some emergency  repairs.

Cathedrals may be magificent structures, but Lincoln was one of the first to be built, and they were making it up as they went along, there was no previous knowledge about building structures that big in staone. Theres record of it partially falling down several times during the 100 years it took to build it. Not to mention dozens of masons and carpenters killed and injured.

But imagine starting work on a building that you worked on all your life,  then your son did, then your grandson did, and it wasnt finished until your great grandson was working on it.  (mind you, some modern local government projects are like that....)

[betula]

These wonderful ancient buildings are never finished.

Work is constantly going on to keep them safe for the nation.

[Aden Roller]

Chichester cathedral's sticky-up-bit also collapsed at some stage and had to be rebuilt. Recent work has seen the poshing-up outside stone sandblasted to clean it. Lovely colour now!

[lincsyokel2]

The main spire at Lincoln used to be 525 feet high, it was in fact the highest structure in the world at that point, surpassing the Pyramid of Cheops in 1311 AD, until lightning struck it and it burnt up and fell down in 1549 AD. There was other points between 1150 ADand 1525 AD when it partially collapsed.

Even now, if you stand on the top of the spire on either of the remaining towers and look east, the next point on the planet thats the same height as you is the Ural Mountians in Russia.

[Aunty Mavis]

OMG when we were at school we HAD to go to a full song mass every first Friday of the month.

We hated it and every one sung the plain chant out of tune deliberately.

In the end there was not a priest who would conduct a mass for our school. (we were ever so upset)

Every so often there would be a young priest who was about to finnish his training who came to the school to talk to the girls. At the end of his visit he would hear confessions.

Well, you can imagine the confessions a group of teenager girls could put together.

Sadly the school I went to no longer exists. (Not so sad to be honest) I would rather send my girls to St Trinnians it is much more sophisticated.

[Aden Roller]

The main spire at Lincoln used to be 525 feet high, it was in fact the highest structure in the world at that point, surpassing the Pyramid of Cheops in 1311 AD, until lightning struck it and it burnt up and fell down in 1549 AD. There was other points between 1150 ADand 1525 AD when it partially collapsed.

Even now, if you stand on the top of the spire on either of the remaining towers and look east, the next point on the planet thats the same height as you is the Ural Mountians in Russia.

Very nice if you don't mind heights  :P
The wonder of the internet... Is there a web-cam up there?  ;)

[claybasket]

Durham cathedral in one of the most beautiful buildings built by the Normans in 1098.

[lincsyokel2]

Durham cathedral in one of the most beautiful buildings built by the Normans in 1098.

pssht no comparision, Lincoln is twice the size, taller spire, etc. We even have a few kinsg buried there and of course one of the original copies of the Magna Carta



The even filmed the Da Vinci code at Lincoln because it looked like the original location, Westminster Abbey, because they wouldnt allow filming there.