Breaking down Aquinas' "Adoro te devote" | Chant Tutorial
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- In this lesson we take a look at St Thomas Aquinas' famous hymn "Adoro te devote" and break down its rhythm according to Dom Mocquereau's "Solesmes Method". NOTE: I neither endorse nor condemn the Solesmes Method. As a theory which has had incredible influence in the world of chant for the past 100 years, even to this day, it deserves to be understood as a piece of chant history if for no other reason.
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I love , love Adoro te Devote of St. Thomas Aquinas. It's one of the most beautiful worship songs not just the rhythm but the words itself.
Thank you for this outstanding explanation..May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you abundantly..
You're very welcome!
Great video, thank you for the detailed explanation. May God bless you and your family.
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Thanks!
Thank you very much for sharing this knowledge. It helps a lot. God bless you!
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Hi. Thanks for your inspiration. There is one thing I struggle with learning to sing Gregorian chants: it’s not reading the music but the actual use of my voice and the airflow. I’m a fairly decent singer but my ordinary singing voice doesn’t really work well in chants. Could you make a video on the singing technique of chants? Would be great. Pax in Christ.
Very helpful, thank-you
I want ask, why didn't you observe the vertical episema while singing the adoro te
Since sacral character of Gregorian Chant needs to preserve the prayer form, it cannot be replaced by the emotional journeys as the rythmic pulses that mimic nature processes, by which the music is not a form of serving God, but it serves for its own constitutive forms. That attempt of criticized Mocquereau brings Gregorian Chant closer to contemporary music and should be avoided, because the performance is weighting more than the prayer here. I am still learning about Gregorian Chant, but read today on some website, that in 1905 Pope Pius X condemned any changes such like this.
The supposed condemnation is actually a misunderstanding. There were condemnations of sorts but no wholesale condemnation of anything like the Solesmes Method. Furthermore, although Pius X put his rubber stamp of approval on the Vatican Edition, simply because Pothier was the head of the commission and chose his own theories, Piux was nevertheless, personally, a big fan of Mocquereau's Solesmes Method and highly praised it.
And around 2007, I think, Ecclesia Dei issued a document stating that, in addition to the rhythmical interpretation of the Vatican Edition, the Solesmes Method, Semiology or even the mensuralist approach more recently made famous by Marcel Peres are all permitted.
Oh.