Modes
As many people know, there are many layers to Gregorian Chant. For one, there are modes.
Fun Facts
A Letter to Handel on his "Israel in Egypt" Oratorio
It was Wednesday April 18, 1739. It was a beautiful morning when George Frederick Handel received a letter in the mail. It was from an unknown writer. It as only marked as "Sir, etc." He wrote praising Handel's work in his Oratorio, Israel in Egypt. Granted, he had one request-he wanted the choir to have more professional sounding singers. The singers who performed the night the anonymous singer was present, there was apparent laughter in the audience. He wrote,
The Babylonian Captivity by Martin Luther
Martin Luther changed the course of Western Christian history as we know it. Indeed, it is a rather large feat. What is rather interesting though, was that though he was trying to make a statement, he was not, at first, trying to make a whole new church. He was just trying to call out the things the church was doing wrong. Then everything spiraled further as Luther did more research on his own and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Eventually, he wrote this document called The Babylonian Captivity of the Catholic Church which describes all of the entities in which the Catholic Church is taking away from the people. This included scripture, the Eucharist cup, and the understanding of what was understood since everything was spoken in Latin.
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