Your videos will be shown to my students who are now learning about ancient music at the State of Para, Amazon, Brazil. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Good on you for using this with your students. I'm a Brazilian as well and now am struggling trying to find more information to keep up with my masters program. It would have been a lot easier if I had a teacher to show me this before!
I found this so interesting, you put it all together wonderfully. I've been looking at hymns to learn with fingerpicking guitar and was interested in what the earliest surviving ones are. You got me on the right track. I've also studied a lot of church history and your summary put it all together in one tight storyline which was fantastic. I'm going to have to watch this a few times more, there's so much to absorb. Thanks!
@BVale listening to cacophonies of swearing, the N word, sexually explicit, violent lyrics performed by half-dressed, pornographic no-talent numbskulls. Well, some of them, anyway.
@@keepdancingmariaExcept that's not the case, but in our rebellion, we have perverted it in our self-exaltation and deceived mentality of self-importance and self-indulgence.
Certainly, the music itself is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The specific part about Pope St. Gregory the Great writing the music down, however, is likely apocryphal, as the earliest European music notation dates back to the 800s, two centuries after his death. Thus, for him to have written them down would require us to postulate a musical notation for which we have no evidence besides this one story. That being said, I think it probable that Gregory was indeed given chants which were then disseminated through Christendom orally, though that is strictly conjecture in my part.
thank you very much for all these info. i think you have to do more detailed and longer programs. there is really a dearth of information on all hese topics...
In Hebrew Cantillation, is the joint root of both spoken word and intonation. The melody of the scriptures was logocentric, so that the melody is as inseparable from the message as are the attitude with which the words were said. When you speak angrily, how does your voice rise and fall? When you sing a baby to sleep, how does it then? You can compose music from your own speaking voice. Record it: listen back to the intervals that your voice travels along from beginning to end of your sentence. Set it to a mode that does justice to the occasion or mood, and simply map your syllables to the notes, respecting your rises and falls and their relative distances! And there you have a personal cantillation.
That's so cool to think about! Indeed, all music is made up of tones of voice. The different moods in everything from symphonies to folk songs, are composed of different "tones of voice," per se.
Hi: I loved your synopsis of Church history, and then of the Christian calendar. 1) When Paul speaks of "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" [Ephesians 5:19] , in the NT Church, do you take these to be three discrete categories? 2) I keep wondering about the notation that was used in different periods, and how accurately we are able to figure out what the ancient tunes actually were. I presume you have done a video on this. Many blessings! :--}>
www.scuoladicantogregoriano.it/images/sheets/Epi_gra.jpg The notation in red in this image is the first type of notation used for Gregorian Chant. It required knowledge of the chant prior to reading the notation. The four-line notation is the most well known notation for Gregorian chant, and is still used as the primary method of notation for this music, although some people do use a more modern 5-staff notation adapted to work with plainchant.
Thank you for an interesting and fun video! I would very much like to learn about the origins of christian music. Are the origins the same for catholic church, ortodox, the churches if caucasus, the coptics? .. and so on.
I'm studying Hebrew chant for my MSc, innovating new statistical methods for comparing melodies! There have recently been some credible comparisons of Jewish chant and Christian chant from around the world. If you want my English translation of Regina Randhofer's dissertation on the topic, reply to me and I can link or email it to you. It has many transcriptions into staff notation.
Interesting take on the subject. Surprising sometimes. I´ve never thought of Hildegard as being historically significant for example and you don´t mention monasticism in connection with chant.
Thank you for this. BTW, it’s pronounced uh-GUSS-tin when you’re talking about the saint. The city in Florida is pronounced AW-gus-teen. Don’t ask me why.
No. A morality play is a specific literary genre featuring a character named Everyman going through various challenges and mixing with personifications of virtues and vices.
“But don’t worry you don’t have to be Christian to appreciate or understand this music.” Why would that even be an issue to mention? Maybe only for the atheists?🤔
Or those of ALL the OTHER faiths besides Christian. Why assume that it is only Christian or atheist who would benefit from listening to this video? Most of the world's population is NOT Christian.
Like how in your video you pretty much doubt Christianity it's like you can't even talk about it for 5 min with expressing the doubt you have lol god bless tho for the info pretty informative i appreciate that part
The early Christian church's music was not covered in this video, but, apart from the unknown hymn mentioned in the Scriptures at the last supper, everything else covered was just Satanic organized religion's music. Constantine never converted, it was a political maneuver at best, and a devilish scheme at worst, and I think it was the latter given the prophecies found in both old and new testaments that speak of the Roman Catholic Church, whose secret religion is Satanism, and not Christianity, which is why they call the Pope, "pope" meaning Father, a title that Jesus is very clear in the Scriptures, goeth to no mortal man; that Christians have one Father, even God, not a devil possessed man in a gown. The story with Gregory and the dove could have been true, but if it was, then that was not the holy Ghost, but rather a devil, of whom the scriptures call birds in several places. Yes, I know the Holy Ghost descended LIKE a dove or in a bodily shape like as a dove in the gospels, but not an actual physical form of a dove. Please understand what you are dealing with when it cometh to the Roman Catholic and Orthodoxx and protestant churches. The church of God, Christians, are those that believe the words of God (and not merely professing to believe, actually believe), today found in the King James Bible, and who have been born again of the Spirit of God through faith in the Gospel and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in his death, burial, and resurrection to pay for their sins: those who call upon his name and believe upon his name. All of these people parading around in robes and going to buildings they call churches and cathedrals are playing pretend at best and are engaged in withcraft and conscious devil worship at the worst. There may be some low level well meaning people who are deceived, to that the Scriptures say, Come out of her my people that ye partake not in her plagues. We have the words of God as the standard, because men are both fallible and corruptible and evil. But God is good, and faithful and his word is tried and good and faithful and powerful and is able to save thy soule from death. And God hath both promised and fulfilled that he would preserve his words forever and that he would shew his covenant to them that fear him. 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 KJV Romans 10:2-13 KJV Proverbs 30:4-6 KJV John 14:6 KJV John 14:22-24 KJV
Here are some links to recordings in this video:
Viderunt Omnes: amzn.to/3foBczs
O Virtus Sapientia: amzn.to/3xr1Wpa
Your videos will be shown to my students who are now learning about ancient music at the State of Para, Amazon, Brazil. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Good on you for using this with your students. I'm a Brazilian as well and now am struggling trying to find more information to keep up with my masters program. It would have been a lot easier if I had a teacher to show me this before!
This is fantastic, music and Christian history!
Thank you so much!
Your UA-cams are excellent. You elaborate just enough that holds our attention. I am learning so much.
I found this so interesting, you put it all together wonderfully. I've been looking at hymns to learn with fingerpicking guitar and was interested in what the earliest surviving ones are. You got me on the right track. I've also studied a lot of church history and your summary put it all together in one tight storyline which was fantastic. I'm going to have to watch this a few times more, there's so much to absorb. Thanks!
To God be the glory wonder music and presentation may The Lord of GoD almighty richly bless thee!
Super accurate and quick description of church history. It provides essential context for most pre-Renaissance music.
These videos are great and bring to life material that can get rather dry. My undergraduate students really enjoy them!
Oh we gonna get crazy!! Love it!
*crazy eyes*
Great infographics and other multimedia to go with the narration. Keep 'em coming!
Glad you like em! Some of them take me a lot of work!
I absolutely love your channel!!!! Thank you ⚘
"Music is a gift from God and meant for worship and prayer." They might cry if they heard most music today....
Yeah, that idea certainly didn't prevail with most of society.
@BVale listening to cacophonies of swearing, the N word, sexually explicit, violent lyrics performed by half-dressed, pornographic no-talent numbskulls. Well, some of them, anyway.
Almost as if music is not a gift from god, and has whatever meaning we, the humans that make the music, give it.
@@keepdancingmariaExcept that's not the case, but in our rebellion, we have perverted it in our self-exaltation and deceived mentality of self-importance and self-indulgence.
What a great summary of the spread of Christianity!
You got a LOL out of me for the Harry Potter reference! X) great work!
Why can't it be real?! *sobs*
I enjoyed this.
Pretty sure that story about the Holy Spirit inspiring Gregorian chant is true, though. 😇
Certainly, the music itself is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The specific part about Pope St. Gregory the Great writing the music down, however, is likely apocryphal, as the earliest European music notation dates back to the 800s, two centuries after his death. Thus, for him to have written them down would require us to postulate a musical notation for which we have no evidence besides this one story. That being said, I think it probable that Gregory was indeed given chants which were then disseminated through Christendom orally, though that is strictly conjecture in my part.
Very interesting stuff. Helps to be told what to look for when listening.
Getting better at that!
I haven't mentioned this yet, but very happy with your John Adams intro music.
Thanks! It's a personal favorite.
thank you very much for all these info. i think you have to do more detailed and longer programs. there is really a dearth of information on all hese topics...
Thank you again, Matthew!
Brilliant! Glad I found your channel.
In Hebrew Cantillation, is the joint root of both spoken word and intonation. The melody of the scriptures was logocentric, so that the melody is as inseparable from the message as are the attitude with which the words were said. When you speak angrily, how does your voice rise and fall? When you sing a baby to sleep, how does it then?
You can compose music from your own speaking voice. Record it: listen back to the intervals that your voice travels along from beginning to end of your sentence. Set it to a mode that does justice to the occasion or mood, and simply map your syllables to the notes, respecting your rises and falls and their relative distances! And there you have a personal cantillation.
That's so cool to think about! Indeed, all music is made up of tones of voice. The different moods in everything from symphonies to folk songs, are composed of different "tones of voice," per se.
Great learning
Thank you for sharing. This was very informative.
Excellent video!
Jacob Orchard Thanks!
Hi: I loved your synopsis of Church history, and then of the Christian calendar.
1) When Paul speaks of "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" [Ephesians 5:19] , in the NT Church, do you take these to be three discrete categories?
2) I keep wondering about the notation that was used in different periods, and how accurately we are able to figure out what the ancient tunes actually were. I presume you have done a video on this.
Many blessings!
:--}>
www.scuoladicantogregoriano.it/images/sheets/Epi_gra.jpg
The notation in red in this image is the first type of notation used for Gregorian Chant. It required knowledge of the chant prior to reading the notation.
The four-line notation is the most well known notation for Gregorian chant, and is still used as the primary method of notation for this music, although some people do use a more modern 5-staff notation adapted to work with plainchant.
Really excellent - Thank you!
Matthew. Thank you. 😀
This video is gold
casually watching this for DMA entrance exams because MY GROUT STILL HASN'T COME IN THE MAIL
I feel the pain. Best of luck with the entrance exams!
Thanks!
Thank you for an interesting and fun video! I would very much like to learn about the origins of christian music. Are the origins the same for catholic church, ortodox, the churches if caucasus, the coptics? .. and so on.
I'm studying Hebrew chant for my MSc, innovating new statistical methods for comparing melodies! There have recently been some credible comparisons of Jewish chant and Christian chant from around the world. If you want my English translation of Regina Randhofer's dissertation on the topic, reply to me and I can link or email it to you. It has many transcriptions into staff notation.
Thank you.
Any recommended book to read about music in early Christianity would be appreciated. I am looking one/many for references.
Interesting take on the subject. Surprising sometimes. I´ve never thought of Hildegard as being historically significant for example and you don´t mention monasticism in connection with chant.
The video has interesting parts. But is impressive how people misunderstand the Church 🤦🏻
Hello keep it classical, can you please give me your research paper for this. I need your awesome idea i music. Thanks in advance.
Thank you for this. BTW, it’s pronounced uh-GUSS-tin when you’re talking about the saint. The city in Florida is pronounced AW-gus-teen. Don’t ask me why.
at 3:40… what makes you think it’s “probably not” true ?
Search Byzantine Chant !
Actually it was not intended for the Bishop of Rome to be head of all Bishops. They claimed that themselves and split the church in two.
Why the overblown pause to reflect on Harry Potter? Very out of synch and gives undue spotlight to it.
yo Jonathan goodman, big fan of your channel. Can you do a 360 while on the toilet for us?
“Morality play“ - allegory, right?
A morality play is when someone is guilty of something and tries to say they’re justified
No. A morality play is a specific literary genre featuring a character named Everyman going through various challenges and mixing with personifications of
virtues and vices.
@@kelkabot Oh, I see. Thanks.
“But don’t worry you don’t have to be Christian to appreciate or understand this music.” Why would that even be an issue to mention? Maybe only for the atheists?🤔
I mean, it might seem obvious to you and I, but I got this question a lot in my music/teaching career.
Or those of ALL the OTHER faiths besides Christian. Why assume that it is only Christian or atheist who would benefit from listening to this video?
Most of the world's population is NOT Christian.
Like how in your video you pretty much doubt Christianity it's like you can't even talk about it for 5 min with expressing the doubt you have lol god bless tho for the info pretty informative i appreciate that part
❤️🇺🇲
The early Christian church's music was not covered in this video, but, apart from the unknown hymn mentioned in the Scriptures at the last supper, everything else covered was just Satanic organized religion's music. Constantine never converted, it was a political maneuver at best, and a devilish scheme at worst, and I think it was the latter given the prophecies found in both old and new testaments that speak of the Roman Catholic Church, whose secret religion is Satanism, and not Christianity, which is why they call the Pope, "pope" meaning Father, a title that Jesus is very clear in the Scriptures, goeth to no mortal man; that Christians have one Father, even God, not a devil possessed man in a gown.
The story with Gregory and the dove could have been true, but if it was, then that was not the holy Ghost, but rather a devil, of whom the scriptures call birds in several places. Yes, I know the Holy Ghost descended LIKE a dove or in a bodily shape like as a dove in the gospels, but not an actual physical form of a dove. Please understand what you are dealing with when it cometh to the Roman Catholic and Orthodoxx and protestant churches. The church of God, Christians, are those that believe the words of God (and not merely professing to believe, actually believe), today found in the King James Bible, and who have been born again of the Spirit of God through faith in the Gospel and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in his death, burial, and resurrection to pay for their sins: those who call upon his name and believe upon his name. All of these people parading around in robes and going to buildings they call churches and cathedrals are playing pretend at best and are engaged in withcraft and conscious devil worship at the worst. There may be some low level well meaning people who are deceived, to that the Scriptures say, Come out of her my people that ye partake not in her plagues.
We have the words of God as the standard, because men are both fallible and corruptible and evil. But God is good, and faithful and his word is tried and good and faithful and powerful and is able to save thy soule from death. And God hath both promised and fulfilled that he would preserve his words forever and that he would shew his covenant to them that fear him.
1 Corinthians 15:1-8 KJV
Romans 10:2-13 KJV
Proverbs 30:4-6 KJV
John 14:6 KJV
John 14:22-24 KJV
HvB is the one
May I translate this video to portuguese?
Pretty hilarious when westerners call Hildegard “early”😂
Hymn singing is essentially Protestant. Catholics have an instinct against it. That instinct has to do with the nature of liturgical worship.