What is your favorite gregorian chant and what is your favorite polyphonic?

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What is your favorite gregorian chant and what is your favorite polyphonic?

Plus, can you actually sing any of them?

And a little poll on polyphonic.
 
When my grandmother died, the recessional hymn for her funeral was Salve Regina. My parochial vicar chanted it and it was beautiful.

I also love Regina Caeli. We used to sing it during Easter at another parish.

I also love to chant the Pater Noster along with the Holy Father whenever I catch the papal audiences and the papal Mass.

These are my other favorites:
Iesu Dulcis Memoria
Attende Domine
Te Deum
The Litany of the Saints
Veni Creator Spiritus

There is something deep and piercing about these chants. They penetrate at a deeper level than other music.
 
My favorite gregorian chant is a version of the* Kyrie*, my favorite polyphonic is the Agnus Dei by Andrez Martinez (second favorite is that of William Byrd).

I am a second tenor (the best male voice of course :p) and can sing that Kyrie and a few other chants. I also know a few polyphonic pieces (although I went to a protestant school, our choir director had an affinity for Catholic music).

I’m really just now discovering gregorian chant and everything it has to offer. It really is a shame that its dissapeared from most Churches.
 
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