Liturgical Music

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Little_One0307 said:
I perfer minor keys to the Major Keys. If I ever had a choice of which song to do either in major or minor, the minor key settings would always win out. There’s just something mystical and deep with the minor keys that are lacking in the major keys.
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Minor keys rock! I just happen to love spooky music.

Like the Toccata on Veni Emmanuel?
 
Little_One0307 said:
Yes I do. Thanks for sharing that link.

Yeah there’s almost a sacredness that the minor keys have that are absent in the Major Keys.
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That’s why much of the music (chants) for more solemn occasions in the church has been in so called “minor” keys (in chant there’s no keys, but you get the point).
 
TheMc said:
That’s why much of the music (chants) for more solemn occasions in the church has been in so called “minor” keys (in chant there’s no keys, but you get the point).
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Modes I believe that they are called. I am writing my own chant settings to the revised Mass. Hopefully I can get it done before Advent.
 
Little_One0307 said:
Modes I believe that they are called. I am writing my own chant settings to the revised Mass. Hopefully I can get it done before Advent.
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Yep, they’re called modes, and there’s 7 of them. I should have just said “modes”, but after having a long conversation about some of this stuff in “real life”, I had gotten used to explaining everything as if it was for beginners. 😃
 
TheMc said:
Please post them when you are finished, or at least PM them to me!
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I will, they may not be quite chantish enough, but I am striving. I am wishing to write them in Latin. I am also working on another set in English as per requested by a former parish I attended. Pray that I have the grace to perservere on this one. I am writing them for all the liturgical seasons, I am striving to have the Advent ones done at least by Advent.

One thing I always enjoyed as a Music Major was writing polyphony and writing hymms and arranging music for Church. I don’t get that much done now that I do not attend parish churches. However, I wish to present it as a thank you present for all that the members of that parish did for me during a difficult time.

God bless.
 
TheMc said:
Yep, they’re called modes, and there’s 7 of them. I should have just said “modes”, but after having a long conversation about some of this stuff in “real life”, I had gotten used to explaining everything as if it was for beginners. 😃
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Eight, actually. Although modes I and VIII run through the same notes, they are not entirely equivalent because a composition in one of the authentic modes (such as I) will finish on the lowest note of the scale, while a composition in a plagal mode (such as VIII) will have its final on the fourth. In practice, taking the do-clef as marking C, this means that a chant in mode I will end on D, and a chant in mode VIII will end on G. There are other differences between modes I and VIII as well, and there are exceptions because nothing is a hard-and-fast rule, but that’s the easiest to judge by.
 
MarkThompson said:
Eight, actually. Although modes I and VIII run through the same notes, they are not entirely equivalent because a composition in one of the authentic modes (such as I) will finish on the lowest note of the scale, while a composition in a plagal mode (such as VIII) will have its final on the fourth. In practice, taking the do-clef as marking C, this means that a chant in mode I will end on D, and a chant in mode VIII will end on G. There are other differences between modes I and VIII as well, and there are exceptions because nothing is a hard-and-fast rule, but that’s the easiest to judge by.
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Thanks, as always, Mark for the correction.
 
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