Alleluia chant. What is this one called? Is this the Easter one?

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Is there a name to this alleluia melody? Who composed it? How old Is this?
 
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My guess is that this is Psalm 116 chanted in mode six. While I’m not knowledgeable with Gregorian Chant, I know there are at least eight common modes (think of them as a set, including the Kyrie, Gloria, Alleluia/Tract, Agnus Dei, etc.). So I guess it’d be as old as the other seven.
 
People sing that in some parishes nearly every week. It’s the one most everyone knows. Although, in English, mostly.
 
Yeah I know one parish does that too. But I’m wondering is this a special alleluia for Easter or is it just an “ordinary” alleluia among others?
 
AFAIK It’s one of many. Not specific to any one Mass. Much beloved around here.
 
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Yeah I know one parish does that too. But I’m wondering is this a special alleluia for Easter or is it just an “ordinary” alleluia among others?
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If you need a precise answer, that “Alleluia” is the antiphon for the Solemn Lauds of Easter Day, which was attached to the Easter Vigil after Communion, although with Psalm 150. I’m not sure where your screenshot is from, but that might also be from a version of the Easter Vigil that uses the same Alleluia tone for a simpler First Alleluia of Easter.

Today, you can use that tone throughout the year for the Gospel acclamation at Mass.
 
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Yeah I know one parish does that too. But I’m wondering is this a special alleluia for Easter or is it just an “ordinary” alleluia among others?
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If you need a precise answer, that “Alleluia” is the antiphon for the Solemn Lauds of Easter Day, which was attached to the Easter Vigil after Communion, although with Psalm 150. I’m not sure where your screenshot is from, but that might also be from a version of the Easter Vigil that uses the same Alleluia tone for a simpler First Alleluia of Easter.

Today, you can use that tone throughout the year for the Gospel acclamation at Mass.
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So after a bit more digging, the Roman Gradual prior to 1961 and the 1974 edition indicate that tone and verse as the Communion antiphon for the Easter Vigil, with Psalm 117 (116). The 1961 Gradual places that Alleluia tone as the antiphon for Psalm 150 during the Solemn Lauds embedded within the Easter Vigil.
 
Correct it’s an alleluia in mode VI. There are 8 principal modes in Gregorian chant, plus 4 archaic modes (that are still fairly widely used especially in the Divine Office) and one simple mode “in directum”.

Nobody knows who composed most Gregorian chant. A few have known authors, mostly hymns (Pange Lingua about the Cross and Vexilla Regis, both Holy Week hymns by Venantius Fortunatus, and Pange Lingua about the Eucharist, by St. Thomas Aquinas). Most antiphons are anonymous, likely monks and religious from the Carolingian era with some borrowed from earlier/other chant forms like Gallican, Ambrosian, Mozarabic.
 
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