It might come as no surprise that the ethereal sound of nuns’ traditionalplainchanthas resonated with listeners across the globe in 2020, with many of us in need of a beautiful moment of music amid rather turbulent times. But this community of 23 nuns living in the south of England have ...
That is why when eclipses appear, Buddhists are inspired to chant mantras, meditate or other engage practices that they believe will to take them closer to enlightenment. It also explains why all medical students must study astronomy to a certain level in traditional monasteries. Astronomical knowl...
The composer operates with the material of these traditional folk motives within a certain mode for his creations. His composition is nothing but his arrangement and combination of this limited number of motives. His “freedom” of creation consists further in embellishments and in modulations from ...
[i.e., convergent and divergent] character. The composer operates with the material of these traditional folk motives within a certain mode for his creations. Hiscompositionis nothing but his arrangement and combination of this limited number of motives. His “freedom” of creation consists further...