3.15.2005

getting Gregorian

I got interested in chant tones yesterday. I learned some when I was with the Dominicans, and still use them occasionally when I pray the Psalms, but they're not very good ones. So I checked out the traditional Gregorian tones for chanting the Psalms. Here's three that I really like and plan to use:



That last one is cool. And it's known as the Tonus Perigrinus, the "wandering tone" (because the second line starts on a different note than the first). A pilgrim tone.