Chants for the Second Sunday of Lent
  • amindthatsuits
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    Here are the videos I found for the Second Sunday of Lent on Youtube. I began doing this during Advent and got stopped by work. I will try to have these up for all Sundays post-haste.

    Why? To help. My longterm voice project is to learn Die Shoene Mullerin by Schubert. I start each song by studying Quasthoff and Fischer-Diskau. I have sightread an unfamiliar Brahms melody, but why, if you don't have to? Unless sightreading is your aim. I heard the guy who invented magnetic tape explain why: his college roommate was a voice major and wanted to hear himself.

    These are of varying quality. Usually, the Offertory has the most videos to choose from. I have no idea why, as it is not necessarily the most beautiful melody.

    But--hint, hint--it is now pitifully easy to do this, and those of you with scholae would help others if you just copied Dott. Giovannia Vianini in Milan--and made videos of everything you do!!!

    Hope this helps. This is a little late for next Sunday, but will try to have the next ones up this week.

    Introit:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chxCLgSm3Oc
    Graduale:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahwDJhN6SfU

    Tract:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tikoY4u2Fus

    Offertory:

    From the Mass for New Evangelization in St. Peter’s last year:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUe2QNvBOIc

    (And then I guess Palestrina immediately thereafter:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seJT0c5QqWU)

    From Giovanni Vianini, who has over 1000 generally excellent videos of either himself or his schola singing in various churches around Milan. Mostly, what he says in Italian just identifies the piece.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXrIFsUyxE

    From someone who runs a Chant blog/instructional site in Portuguese (have not found where he is.) Some tapes are quite good.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNr-ZW1UFOc

    Communion:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWASO-EXKjo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_Y_SBMzSA
  • amindthatsuits
    Posts: 857
    Wow...makes it look like the Chant Cafe. Didn;'t mean to take up so much space!
    Kenneth
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    TWIMC -
    By the way: Sundays are IN Lent, not OF Lent. This owing to the fact that the forty days (from Ash Wednesday to Easter Even) are such as they are exclusive of Sundays. Sundays of Advent, though, really are OF Advent.
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,768
    JMO,

    That sounds like a newfangled interpretation; the Gregorian Missal as well as my parish calendar say Sundays Of Lent. The Catholic Encyclopedia suggests the original 36-day fast beginning Lent I was a tithe of the year's 365 days. Extending it to Ash Wednesday makes for a tidy 40 days in the wilderness preceding the entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    Well, its not at all newfangled, in fact it is quite oldfangled. It does not surprise me that it's in your Gregorian Missal (it's in mine too) and your kalendar because it is everywhere and everbody says it. But 'in' and not 'of' remains correct. The historical record does indeed show us quite a variety of lengths for the pre-Easter fast, from a few days to more than eight weeks (not to mention the 'gessimas' of the pre-VII kalendar). The Lent which we now have observed for hundreds of years, though, is indeed forty days, exclusive of Sundays, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Even.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,151
    The Lent which we now have observed for hundreds of years, though, is indeed forty days, exclusive of Sundays, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Even.

    Precisely my understanding!

    Of course, for those Eastern Rite Catholics which adhere to the Eastern calendar, today is the first day of Lent. For other Eastern Rite Catholics (who celebrate Easter according to the Roman calendar), the first day of Lent was the Monday (Clean Monday) before Ash Wednesday. Moreover, in the Eastern Rite churches, the forty days of Lent are counted from Clean Monday consecutively, including Sundays, ending on Friday before Palm Sunday. The next day (Lazarus Saturday), Palm Sunday, and Holy Week are a distinct period of fasting.
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    CHG -
    Thanks for the Eastern Review. Sometimes it is easy to see why the Orthodox consider Catholics the first Protestants! We do well to celebrate Christmas, Easter and Pentecost, let alone Lazarus Saturday and Clean Monday! (Speaking of Pentecost: now, thanks to the Anglican ordinariate, 'Whitsunday' is now Catholic [yet another breeze through John XXIII's window!]).
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • amindthatsuits
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    Ok, guys, I was trying to be helpful to newbies. This has become one of THOSE discussions. I happen to like them, but it is NOT a way to make people looking for support to get ONE Chant down right on ONE Sunday in/of/by/between/during/amongst Lent.
  • amindthatsuits
    Posts: 857
    By the way, Maronites, a completely distinct Rite, do not give you feast days off for Lent, so started Lent on last Monday because there are two feasts this year during/in/from/betwixt/anent Lent. The deacon in my class, in typical Eastern fashion, was oblivious to the Roman practice around him and found it surprising.
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