{"id":1602,"date":"2015-10-26T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-evolution\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:54:43","slug":"gregorian-chant-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregorian Chant: Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Fidelis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Simple chants of only 2 or 3 notes, that circle around a single pitch, are most likely very ancient.\u00a0 However, over time, the final pitches began to descend, and we see an expansion of range from the Reciting Tone to the Home Tone. Below are 3 brief antiphons\u2014all beginning very similarly on LA and SOL.\u00a0 But look at the endings!\u00a0 The first ends on LA\u2014obviously one of the very early ones..\u00a0 The second antiphon descends to a MI.\u00a0 We know this as Mode IV;\u00a0 and the final antiphon descends to RE, which gives us the formula for Mode I.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a very simplistic &#8220;snap shot&#8221; of some of the changes that took place in the Gregorian repertoire over the centuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/skitch3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5625192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/skitch3.png\" alt=\"Chant\" width=\"747\" height=\"652\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/jgcaZQM2PL8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Fidelis Simple chants of only 2 or 3 notes, that circle around a single pitch, are most likely very ancient.\u00a0 However, over time, the final pitches began to descend, and we see an expansion of range from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-evolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}