How many "Amens" after the Gloria do you sing?

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In this parish, I don’t think I’ve ever heard more than one Amen at the end of the Gloria. :hmmm:

OTOH, what is referred to as the Great Amen sometimes has four.
 
One Amen with the Gloria.

The Geoffrey Angeles Setting that we use for the “Great Amen” has 3.
 
Brendan said:
Here is the one we use at our parish ( OF)

youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=Awd5kthymt0

It only has one ‘Amen’
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That’s the one our schola sings most often as well, and I’m thoroughly sick of it especially since it isn’t really “Gregorian” chant.

However we’ve branched out a bit lately and at our last Mass we sang the Ambrosian Gloria, which is very different, and has some fairly tough bits. We’ve also used the Gloria from Mass I (for Easter season) occasionally during Easter season. I do wish we’d try others more often, but our choirmaster insists that Gloria VIII is the only one parishioners are likely to know and sing along with. Which is probably true…

All of the Gregorian (or in the case of Mass VIII… neo-Gregorian) settings have only one “Amen”, however some of them are very melismatic.
 
UpUpAndAway said:
The current translation has been in use since before I arrived—remember that I am in France—so no, I couldn’t have heard multiple Amens with the old version because I wasn’t here to do so 😉
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Could it then be an English thing? 🙂
 
It is true that composers that write the Gloria do so in different ways: repeating the Gloria “refrain” or through composed, repeating certain words, etc. In other words, there are composers that take some liberties to make their composition palatable. I would like to know the mass that you use that ends in 5 or 7 amens. I think that is excessive. We use both the Mass of Christ the Savior and Mass of Renewal, one repeats the “refrain” and the other is through composed. Both end with a double Amen. I think two would be the limit.
 
ProVobis said:
Could it then be an English thing? 🙂
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Anything is possible 🙂 For all I know, however, multiple post-Gloria Amens were common (or at least not unheard of) in the previous French translation. Lacking experience with it, however, I’m not in a position to say one way or another.
 
UpUpAndAway said:
The current translation has been in use since before I arrived—remember that I am in France—so no, I couldn’t have heard multiple Amens with the old version because I wasn’t here to do so 😉
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So are we talking about a French, English or Latin Gloria?

If it’s French it’s not about translation since the official French translation of the Third Typical Edition has not been promulgated yet.

It has long been understood that repeating a phrase or a word for musical purposes is legitimate. IIRC there is even a dubium to that effect or at least a clarification that dates back at least a century.

Two of the three settings of the English Gloria commissioned by the CCCB have repeated Amens at the end of the Gloria. For two of the compositions, Amen is not the end of the Gloria, they then repeat the refrain something I find quite weird.

All three of the above mentioned settings have 3 Amens at the end of the Doxology, one has a fourth Amen if the piece is sung in harmony rather than in unison.
 
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