Pope John XIX and the History of Music
With Guido’s method, the association between the syllables (Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La) and the intonation of the individual sounds remains firmly impressed in memory.
With Guido’s method, the association between the syllables (Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La) and the intonation of the individual sounds remains firmly impressed in memory.
We, the priests and Christians, have not succeeded in destroying the Church! And would you like to do it?
Outside Italy this form of composition would find among most famous authors, Johann Sebastian Bach.
In the Blessed in Paradise, the instruments project us into the spiritual harmony that the blessed regain in music.
"He is a very distinguished and enlightened individual and a Prince full of dignity."
It was heard in Paris on April 18, 1802, Easter Sunday, when the Concordat was proclaimed in France.
He composed the text and the melody of almost 1200 hymns (šarakan), troparia, odes, and liturgical songs.
St. Jerome does not absolutely condemn singing, but reproves those who sing theatrically in church not in order to arouse devotion, but in order to show off, or to provoke pleasure.