JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A few steps from Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect place to practise chants ahead of the holiest day in the Christian calendar. ...
In autumn, while Chia Hua still chants love-sick verses, Chen Fei invites him again for tea and drink. Chen Fei advances money (fifty taels of silver and two suits) so that Chia Hua can take the Metropolitan Exams.Chen Fei's good deed is not appreciated in heaven; he loses everything...
Plainchant, or plainsong, is also known as Gregorian chant and forms the core of the musical repertoire of the Roman Catholic Church. It consists of about 3,000 melodies collected and organized during the reigns of several 6th- and 7th-century popes. Most instrumental in codifying these chants...