Here I make a start on a plan to explain how to sing the psalm tones for the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I start with the two simplest tones - Recto Tono and Tonus In Directum. The Tonus In Directum is used in the Little Office for the three Psalms in the hour of Compline. Here I'm using the Monastic version, but the Roman version is very similar. https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lvsj0Q11s0

Day 33 of #100daysofchant Using my random chant script which you can find in this blog post: https://www.brandt.id.au/post/hundreddaysofchant/ I randomly selected this piece: https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=1310 and had a go at singing it. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM1nh1kvOnM

Here's the old Vespers Hymn for the feast of the Epiphany. It's taken from the longer hymn *A solis ortus cardine* which has a verse beginning with each letter of the alphabet. I'm singing this as written in the Antiphonale Monasticum (Benedictine). The words were "updated" in 1632 and that's where the slightly different version in the Liber Usualis comes from and I'll upload that version next. 1. Hostis Herodes impie, Christum venire quid times? Non eripit mortalia, Qui regna dat caelestia. 2. Ibant magi, quam viderant, Stellam sequentes praeviam: Lumen requirunt lumine, Deum fatentur munere. 3. Lavacra puri gurgitis Caelestis Agnus attigit; Peccata, quae non detulit, Nos abluendo sustulit. 4. Novum genus potentiae, Aquae rubescunt hydriae, Vinumque iussa fundere Mutavit unda originem. 5. Gloria tibi, Domine, Qui apparuisti hodie, Cum Patre et Sancto Spiritu In sempiterna saecula. Amen. English: WHY, impious Herod, vainly fear that Christ the Saviour cometh here? He takes no earthly realms away Who gives the crown that lasts for aye. To greet His birth the Wise Men went, led by the star before them sent; called on by light, towards Light they pressed, and by their gifts their God confessed. In holy Jordan's purest wave the heavenly Lamb vouchsafed to lave; That He, to whom was sin unknown, might cleanse His people from their own. New miracle of power divine! The water reddens into wine: He spake the word: and poured the wave in other streams than nature gave. All glory, Lord, to Thee we pay for Thine Epiphany today; all glory as is ever meet, to Father and to Paraclete. Amen. Translation by John Mason Neale ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaazB4g9xXM

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