Victimae Paschali Laudes, in chant, but also as a jig
  • E_A_FulhorstE_A_Fulhorst
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    Is this a common interpretation of the chant notation for sequences?

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

    Now, the choir may not be actually using the chant notation, but the video does make the square notes very prominent. Is there a big disconnect here between the notation and the performance, or am I just going crazy?
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  • ScottKChicago
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    I like this! I believe they're employing a rhythmic mode:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmic_mode

    Another chant to which rhythmic mode is often applied is "Of the Father's love begotten."
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  • GavinGavin
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    I like it! Very festive. And definitely not a gigue - that term has an actual meaning, quite different from what's going on here.

    I've also done Veni Sancte Spiritus to the same mode. As for "Of the Father's Love"... I prefer equalist.
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,119
    That (the aural not the visual) is the setting by the now emeritus of Notre Dame de Paris, Jehan Revert (b. 1921) - Prose de Pâques grégorien harmonisé par Jehan Revert.

    The metrical adaptation is probably designed with a vast diaphanous acoustic in mind; it helps to keep things together, as it were.
  • francis
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    its cool, but NOT the chant version as your audio rendition is a hymn setting in rhythmic notation.

    Here's the original

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSs-N6T5BCs
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    The Hymnal 1982 does this with a couple chant hymns- actually printing them in a triple-meter. Then there's a little note about how you can sing it normal if you want. Drives me crazy.
  • Patricia Cecilia
    Posts: 400
    Liam, is the Revert setting available in print? I am not finding it in Musicanet.org, for instance, nor via Google (other than the recording).
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