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George720 said:
It was a little dig at sonorous snobbery…
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The iimplication that I am a snob is noted. Thank you.
I spend much time and effort on church music; it is a great way to advance kenosis.

The simple idea to listen in order to work with music that the people can chant in a way that adds to the prayerfulness of the liturgy. What that means in practice will vary from one community to another. But all communities should be mindful of this simple idea.
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Russian Cathedral Choral music
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While even L-B Obikhod may have been composed at the cathedral it made for and enjoys parochial.
The Ledkovksy “Open the doors” has similar qualities of homophonic texture, simple harmonies, narrow voice ranges that make them work will in parishes. Same with the Dostojno Jest on the first part of the clip or the Kedrov. That, IMO, is the genius of this kind of chant. Beautifully prayerful and within the capacity of the people. The counterpoint in the second part of the first clip is different and not so common in parochial usage.
 
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dvdjs said:
It was a little dig at sonorous snobbery…
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Forgive me - It is so easy for folks with musical talents and hearing to get so lost in the interstitials of lovely harmonics that they lose sight of God thinking they have Him in the music… An old toothless illiterate peasant woman washing diapers for her grand-daughter can know God WAY better than Tchaikowsky… So by giving a little dig at musical snobbery, I was not singling you out at all, but warning of a trap that loves to hide…

BECAUSE…

The music is beautiful, and is all that you say it is…

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I grew up with beloved Stara Bubas singing with us in a peasant sonority every morning before school.
If there is a trap here, it might be the trap of making assumption-based insinuations rather than asking.
 
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dvdjs said:
I grew up with beloved Stara Bubas singing with us in a peasant sonority every morning before school.
If there is a trap here, it might be the trap of making assumption-based insinuations rather than asking.
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Can you forgive me?

I had a similar song out of the Apocalypse that carried me through my atheist years… Came through our High School Choir music - The point being that such beauty gives sustenance through droughts in dearth of Spirit… As always in this fallen life, there are thorns in the roses, that’s all… (An Emmylou Harris theme)… I am not denigrating the value of beauty in music, and especially Church music… God knows the Angels sing, do they not? And we try in various ways to emulate the angelic choirs, yes? And these are good things that we do, no question…

Please forgive me for the insinuation and for not asking…

By your prayers I may become a better person…

Here is a chanting out of the Republic of Georgia of the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic…

The Pope heard it and wept as it was being chanted:


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Anyone here in love with Ps. 50/51?

Here it is being sung by Fr Seraphim from the Georgian Republic in the language of Jesus, Aramaic…


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