If you didn't know, Gregorian chant is a form of unaccompanied sacred song with its roots in the Roman Catholic Church. It developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Professor Willi Apel, a German-American musicologist ...
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, orplainsong, is also known asGregorian chantand forms the core of the musicalrepertoireof theRoman 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 was Pope...
One of these was something of a poet and produced the Bacchants after his father’s death. He may also have completed his father’s unfinished play Iphigenia at Aulis. The ancients knew of 92 plays composed by Euripides. Nineteen plays are extant, if one of disputed authorship is included....
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...
In Bacchants (c. 406 bc; Greek Bakchai; Latin Bacchae) the god Dionysus arrives in Greece from Asia intending to introduce his orgiastic worship there. He is disguised as a charismatic young Asian holy man and is accompanied by his women votaries, who make up the play’s chorus. He ...