Roman Plain Chant Liturgies?
  • michael.c.x.
    Posts: 3
    After reading this blog post (see bellow), I am wondering if there are any Latin Rite churches that regularly sing Roman Plain Chant during mass.

    I'm interested in attending a liturgy in this "original" style of worship.

    Thanks for your help.

    http://catholicknight.blogspot.com/2011/07/never-forget-who-we-are.html
  • Adam Schwend
    Posts: 203
    Michael,

    There are a number who sing the plainsong propers. If you post your general location, I'm sure the members of this forum would be more than happy to direct you to one that may be near you.

    Adam S.
  • michael.c.x.
    Posts: 3
    Thanks Adam,

    I'm in the Chicago area.

    Michael
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    St. John Cantius parish in Chicago has an extensive music program including plainchant.
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    I don't think michael.c.x is asking about Gregorian chant -- the article he mentioned begins, "Before there was Gregorian Chant, there was Roman Plain Chant." I highly doubt there are any parishes that use Old Roman chant in the liturgy, except maybe as an occasional one-off art piece.
  • A Sinner
    Posts: 8
    I would love to know how to go about performing this music. Is it notated? Available?
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,605
    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=old+roman+chant
  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    wow... how cool is this!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srr_uPB0esI

    gives organists a run for their money...
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    It's a great sound, but as this NYT reviewer put it, it's on "the fringe of retrievability": that is, these performances are attempts to reconstruct music based on conjectures about the performance practice of the time.
  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    their reconstruction beats about 95% of the unreconstructed music that happens in the catholic church
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