Gregorian Chant and Contemporary Piano
Homily for Easter Day, 12 April 2020
Homily for Sunday 25C, 22 September 2019
Towards a new Pluscarden Chant CD
Homily given at Quarr Abbey, Wednesday 17 July by the Prior of Pluscarden
We began our Mass today with a very fine Introit, set in the Third mode. This is the “tonus iratus” – the angry mode – or the anguished mode – or the mode of heightened emotion. Dum clamarem ad Dominum exaudivit vocem meam – When I cried to the Lord he heard my voice; he saved me from those who surrounded me. The text is from…