Is it normal to use gregorian chant without organ in Sunday?

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Is it normal to use gregorian chant without organ in Sunday? How do people ought to sing gregoriant chant. With or without Organ? Do we have to use organ in Sunday or it is not obligatory?
 
I am not one of the music experts here, but offhand, since the organ was invented centuries after the introduction of Gregorian chant, I would say it was intended to be sung, or rather chanted, w/o organ accompaniment.
 
puzzleannie said:
I am not one of the music experts here, but offhand, since the organ was invented centuries after the introduction of Gregorian chant, I would say it was intended to be sung, or rather chanted, w/o organ accompaniment.
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Gregorian chant IS meant to be unaccompanied. Accompanment is an accommodation to the musically inept.

Actually, the firs organ appeared in a church in the 4th century. A good 400 years before the introduction of “Gregorian” chant, which, in its present form is considerbly post-Gregorian . . .

Go figure!😛
 
wynd said:
Plus it sounds much better on its own :cool:
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:amen: Preferably by a choir of men only. Second choice: women only. Many voices singing to create a single sound is the goal: no outstanding voices. This is NOT music for wannabe soloists. It is the antithesis of self-advertisement as the singers MUST subordinate themselves simultaneously to both text and music.

Bliss!
 
mercygate said:
Actually, the firs organ appeared in a church in the 4th century. A good 400 years before the introduction of “Gregorian” chant, which, in its present form is considerbly post-Gregorian . . .

Go figure!😛
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I would like to hear more as I was taught in music appreciation (also centuries ago) that the early instrument you refer to was not an actual ancestor of the organ that Bach made famous.

while I am thinking of it, in case anyone is interested, there are Churches that go beyond TLM and have early instrument and choir Masses. Immaculate Conception on the east side of Cleveland used to (Edwin can update us) and I believe there was at least one in the Detroit area, possibly Ann Arbor.
 
mercygate said:
Preferably by a choir of men only. Second choice: women only. Many voices singing to create a single sound is the goal: no outstanding voices. This is NOT music for wannabe soloists. It is the antithesis of self-advertisement as the singers MUST subordinate themselves simultaneously to both text and music.

Bliss!
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:amen: I think that’s why I like Byzantine chant the best. It’s usually made up of strong-voiced men.
 
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