Your Top Ten Gregorian Chants
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,607
    Please list them in your preference...include links to favorite YouTube videos of them if possible.

    1. Jesu Dulcis Memoria
    2. Salve Regina
    3....
  • Erik P
    Posts: 152
    Vidimus stellam - communion chant for Epiphany (C)
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    Watch out!! Don't let David Hughes see this!

    Last time he saw something like this, he wrote an entire article!

    (It was a very good article!)

    The gist of what he said was that chant is perfect FOR the FEAST and OCCASION!

    (just FYI, one of mine is ALLELUIA, Beatus vir qui suffert)
  • Erik P
    Posts: 152
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  • bgeorge77
    Posts: 190
    Yes, excellent call on Vidimus stellam.

    Also:

    Salve Regina Solemn Monastic
    Jerusalem surge
    Victimae paschali
  • gregpgregp
    Posts: 632
    what gbeorge77 said....

    plus

    Crux Fidelis
    Beati mundo corde
    Popule meus
    Nos autem gloriari
    the entire Requiem propers
    Puer Natus
    Christus Factus est
    Signum magnum apparuit

    As I learn more propers, I realize what Jeff quoted above: chant is perfect for the feast and occasion.
  • JamJam
    Posts: 636
    I dunno if I have a top ten of Gregorian chants, since I don't know very many, but I definitely have a favorite: Salve Regina, solemn tone.
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,382
    It would be impossible to choose favourites, for they would change by the day; even as one might be captivated by Machaut one week, Brahms the next, and Tallis or de Grigny the next. To have to choose would be unfair. However, some that regularly move me are:

    Alleluia, Pascha nostrum (this may be The One I would choose if I really had to)
    Te Deum - solemn tone
    Lauda Sion Salvatorem - sequence
    Verbum supernum prodiens, nec patris - hymn
    Puer nobis - introit
    Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts - hymn (as in Hymnal 1940)
    In splendoribus - communion
    Laetatus sum - psalm (in English [Coverdale] or Latin)
    There are so, so many. And few are without merit - this is, I think, rather like asking a loving father to choose among his children.
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  • Donnaswan
    Posts: 585
    Ubi caritas
    hodie Christus natus est

    Divinum mysterium
    veni Creator Spiritus
    Ave verum corpus

    Donna
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  • Ken of Sarum
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    Hodie Christus Natus Est
    Divinum Mysterium
    Ave Verum Corpus
    Salve Mater Misericordiae
    Rorate Caeli
    Asperges me
    Vexilla Regis
    Victimae Paschali Laudes
    O Filii et Filiae
    Lauda, SIon, Salvatorem
    O Sacrum Convivium
    Salve Regina, Mater Misericordiae
    The Rosy Sequence (English)
    Jesu Dulcis Memoria
  • Erik P
    Posts: 152
    the opening notes of the second theme of the "Dante" sonata (Liszt) are the same as the first 4 notes of crux fidelis
  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
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    Without opening my Liber, I'll give a a gut reaction. I'm sure there's a few Graduals and Alleluia's I'll forget
    1- Salve Regina Solemn Monastic
    2- Ave, Maria (offertory)
    3- Epiphany Offertory (Reges Tarsis?)
    4- Ave Maris stella
    5- Factus est repente (Pentecost Communion)
    6- Libera me (Requiem)
    7- In paradisum (Requiem)
    8- Puer natus in bethlehem- hymn
    9- Victimae paschali
    10- Viri Galilei (Ascension introit)

    I like Greg's list, amen to all that.

    Already I'm thinking of a few Kyries and a Gloria and a hymnn and an Alleluia. Oh, this is a very difficult exercise, but some good food for thought as I retire to bed. What a treasure we have, indeed!!!
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  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
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    My number one would be Ave Verum Corpus.
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  • Andrew_Malton
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    Crux fidelis.
    Solemn Salve Regina and Regina caeli

    Robust and vigorous mode VII melodies always:
    * Alleluia Magnus Dominus
    * Factus est repente
    * Kyrie (vi) Rex Genitor with its slow build
  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    Vidi Aquam
    Assumpta est Maria (Alleluia from the Feast of Assumption)
    Rorate Caeli
    Resonet in Laudibus
    Alma Redemptoris Mater
    Ave Regina Caelorum
    Tollite hostias (Communion antiphon)
    Kyrie from Mass V, Magnae Deus Potentiae
    Kyrie from Mass II, Fons Bonitatis
    De Profundis (Offertory)

    P.S. Just one more: Passer invenit (Communion antiphon)
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
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    Communion Dicit Dominus implete hydrias (start at 1:24)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQW67Z0HP1k&t=1m24s
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,749
    Hmmm.

    1. Christus Resurgens. Responsory for Easter Sunday:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtNcGPdE1w
    OR
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zp8gxdr4M

    N.B. There are various versions, Roman, Dominican, Sarum, Ambrosian...

    2. Media Vita
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqNPzCdHohQ

    3. Congregati sunt, Deus
    Responsory for the Dead. Sorry cannot find a recording.

    4. etc. As listed above...
  • Ralph BednarzRalph Bednarz
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    1. Rorate Caeli : Advent 4 INT
    2. Ave Maria Advent 4 OFFERTORY
    3. Factus Est Repentes:Pentecost COM
    4. Comidite Pinguia 3Lent c COM from the Grad or SEP
    5. Orbis Factor Mass English ( Meinrad)
    6. Pascha Nostra Easter COM
    5 .Christus Factus Est GRAD
    6. Salve Sancta Parens and the English transcriptions by Fr. Weber and Fr. Kelly
    7. Jesu Dulcis
    8. Dies Irae: though we never sing this
    9. Exultet
    10. Ave Maria: Chant Hymn


    11. Memento verbi
    12. Quinque Prudentes
    13 Alleuia from the exultation of the cross.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    In no particular order:

    • Christus Factus Est (Holy Week Gradual)
    • Dominus Dixit (Midnight Mass Introit)
    • Salve Regina, Solemn
    • Puer Natus Est (Christmas Introit)
    • Veni Creator Spiritus
    • Kyrie I (Easter)
    • Mass XI (Orbis Factor)

    Update: added a few more favorites after thinking a bit more. I know, it's not 10...

    • In paradisum
    • Attende Domine
    • Adoro Te Devote
    • Ave Maria
    • Ave Maris Stella
    • Exultet (very near the top)
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  • Musicteacher56
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    Adoro Te Devote
    Ave Maria
    Veni Creator Spiritus
    Salve Regina
    Ecce Panis
    Ave Maris Stella
    Jesu Dulcis Memoria
    Ubi Caritas
    Attende Domine
  • quilisma
    Posts: 136
    Gaudete
    Crux fidelis
    Christus factus est
    Ecce virgo
    Nos autem gloriari
    Jubilate Deo (Offertory)
    Victimate paschali laudes
    Dominus dixit
    Gloria laus
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  • Aristotle EsguerraAristotle Esguerra
    Posts: 1,185
    No order of preference. Text was given as least as much weight as melody.

    IN. Ad te levavi
    IN. Dominus dixit
    IN. Nos autem gloriari
    GR. Christus factus est
    GR. Dirigatur oratio mea
    GR. Priusquam te formarem
    AL. Pascha nostrum
    OF. Precatus est Moyses
    CO. Lutum fecit
    AN. In paradisum

    Very honorable mention: Reciting tone for the Lamentations during Tenebræ.
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  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    I've been thinking about this one recently, so evidently I don't have enough to do:

    the Offertory for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost is De Profundis . In the inscrutable depths of Divine Providence, it begins the same way as the much more modern Misty Mountain melody from Peter Jackson's film.

    Now-- to the question at hand.

    1) Jesu Dulcis Memoria
    2) Te Deum
    3) Dies Irae (without which, my sons would consider me failing to adequately represent good music)
    4) Lauda Sion
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    I really like the Tone VIII melismatic Alleulia that you find all ovwr the Graduale Romanum. Although I usually sing the verse to a psalm tone instead of the long melismatic tunes used in the gradual.
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