Music of the Early Christian Church - From the last supper to Hildegard von Bingen
In this video, we learn about music of the Early Christian Church including Gregorian chant and Hildegard von Bingen. Also, I go through the history of Christianity in record time.
Introduction - 0:00
A quick review of early Christian history - 0:59
Music at the Last Supper - 2:39
Gregorian chant - 3:17
What to listen for in chant - 3:57
"Viderunt omnes" - 4:20
The liturgical calendar - 5:49
Hildegard von Bingen - 6:42
"O virtus sapientiae" - 7:42
Ordo Virtutum (The Virtues) - 8:55
The uneasy truce between musicians and the church - 9:55
Recordings in this video:
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O Virtus Sapientia: amzn.to/3xr1Wpa
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Here are some links to recordings in this video: Viderunt Omnes: amzn.to/3foBczs O Virtus Sapientia: amzn.to/3xr1Wpa
To God be the glory wonder music and presentation may The Lord of GoD almighty richly bless thee!
Super accurate and quick description of church history. It provides essential context for most pre-Renaissance music.
Your videos will be shown to my students who are now learning about ancient music at the State of Para, Amazon, Brazil. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Your KZreads are excellent. You elaborate just enough that holds our attention. I am learning so much.
This is fantastic, music and Christian history!
@KeepitClassical
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
"Music is a gift from God and meant for worship and prayer." They might cry if they heard most music today....
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that idea certainly didn't prevail with most of society.
@Paul-qr7hu
2 жыл бұрын
@BVale listening to cacophonies of swearing, the N word, sexually explicit, violent lyrics performed by half-dressed, pornographic no-talent numbskulls. Well, some of them, anyway.
@keepdancingmaria
6 ай бұрын
Almost as if music is not a gift from god, and has whatever meaning we, the humans that make the music, give it.
I found this so interesting, you put it all together wonderfully. I've been looking at hymns to learn with fingerpicking guitar and was interested in what the earliest surviving ones are. You got me on the right track. I've also studied a lot of church history and your summary put it all together in one tight storyline which was fantastic. I'm going to have to watch this a few times more, there's so much to absorb. Thanks!
What a great summary of the spread of Christianity!
Great learning
Oh we gonna get crazy!! Love it!
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
*crazy eyes*
I absolutely love your channel!!!! Thank you ⚘
You got a LOL out of me for the Harry Potter reference! X) great work!
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
Why can't it be real?! *sobs*
I enjoyed this. Pretty sure that story about the Holy Spirit inspiring Gregorian chant is true, though. 😇
@natezube8144
3 ай бұрын
Certainly, the music itself is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The specific part about Pope St. Gregory the Great writing the music down, however, is likely apocryphal, as the earliest European music notation dates back to the 800s, two centuries after his death. Thus, for him to have written them down would require us to postulate a musical notation for which we have no evidence besides this one story. That being said, I think it probable that Gregory was indeed given chants which were then disseminated through Christendom orally, though that is strictly conjecture in my part.
These videos are great and bring to life material that can get rather dry. My undergraduate students really enjoy them!
Great infographics and other multimedia to go with the narration. Keep 'em coming!
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
Glad you like em! Some of them take me a lot of work!
Brilliant! Glad I found your channel.
Thank you again, Matthew!
I haven't mentioned this yet, but very happy with your John Adams intro music.
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! It's a personal favorite.
thank you very much for all these info. i think you have to do more detailed and longer programs. there is really a dearth of information on all hese topics...
In Hebrew Cantillation, is the joint root of both spoken word and intonation. The melody of the scriptures was logocentric, so that the melody is as inseparable from the message as are the attitude with which the words were said. When you speak angrily, how does your voice rise and fall? When you sing a baby to sleep, how does it then? You can compose music from your own speaking voice. Record it: listen back to the intervals that your voice travels along from beginning to end of your sentence. Set it to a mode that does justice to the occasion or mood, and simply map your syllables to the notes, respecting your rises and falls and their relative distances! And there you have a personal cantillation.
@christianblack9426
3 жыл бұрын
That's so cool to think about! Indeed, all music is made up of tones of voice. The different moods in everything from symphonies to folk songs, are composed of different "tones of voice," per se.
Very interesting stuff. Helps to be told what to look for when listening.
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
Getting better at that!
Thank you for sharing. This was very informative.
Matthew. Thank you. 😀
Really excellent - Thank you!
Excellent video!
@KeepitClassical
5 жыл бұрын
Jacob Orchard Thanks!
This video is gold
Thanks!
The video has interesting parts. But is impressive how people misunderstand the Church 🤦🏻
casually watching this for DMA entrance exams because MY GROUT STILL HASN'T COME IN THE MAIL
@KeepitClassical
3 жыл бұрын
I feel the pain. Best of luck with the entrance exams!
Hi: I loved your synopsis of Church history, and then of the Christian calendar. 1) When Paul speaks of "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" [Ephesians 5:19] , in the NT Church, do you take these to be three discrete categories? 2) I keep wondering about the notation that was used in different periods, and how accurately we are able to figure out what the ancient tunes actually were. I presume you have done a video on this. Many blessings! :--}>
@colerobbins124
Жыл бұрын
www.scuoladicantogregoriano.it/images/sheets/Epi_gra.jpg The notation in red in this image is the first type of notation used for Gregorian Chant. It required knowledge of the chant prior to reading the notation. The four-line notation is the most well known notation for Gregorian chant, and is still used as the primary method of notation for this music, although some people do use a more modern 5-staff notation adapted to work with plainchant.
Interesting take on the subject. Surprising sometimes. I´ve never thought of Hildegard as being historically significant for example and you don´t mention monasticism in connection with chant.
Search Byzantine Chant !
Why the overblown pause to reflect on Harry Potter? Very out of synch and gives undue spotlight to it.
Thank you. Any recommended book to read about music in early Christianity would be appreciated. I am looking one/many for references.
Thank you for an interesting and fun video! I would very much like to learn about the origins of christian music. Are the origins the same for catholic church, ortodox, the churches if caucasus, the coptics? .. and so on.
I'm studying Hebrew chant for my MSc, innovating new statistical methods for comparing melodies! There have recently been some credible comparisons of Jewish chant and Christian chant from around the world. If you want my English translation of Regina Randhofer's dissertation on the topic, reply to me and I can link or email it to you. It has many transcriptions into staff notation.
Hello keep it classical, can you please give me your research paper for this. I need your awesome idea i music. Thanks in advance.
at 3:40… what makes you think it’s “probably not” true ?
Thank you for this. BTW, it’s pronounced uh-GUSS-tin when you’re talking about the saint. The city in Florida is pronounced AW-gus-teen. Don’t ask me why.
Actually it was not intended for the Bishop of Rome to be head of all Bishops. They claimed that themselves and split the church in two.
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Like how in your video you pretty much doubt Christianity it's like you can't even talk about it for 5 min with expressing the doubt you have lol god bless tho for the info pretty informative i appreciate that part
“Morality play“ - allegory, right? A morality play is when someone is guilty of something and tries to say they’re justified
@kelkabot
3 ай бұрын
No. A morality play is a specific literary genre featuring a character named Everyman going through various challenges and mixing with personifications of virtues and vices.
@Hexspa
3 ай бұрын
@@kelkabot Oh, I see. Thanks.
“But don’t worry you don’t have to be Christian to appreciate or understand this music.” Why would that even be an issue to mention? Maybe only for the atheists?🤔
@KeepitClassical
2 жыл бұрын
I mean, it might seem obvious to you and I, but I got this question a lot in my music/teaching career.
@keepdancingmaria
6 ай бұрын
Or those of ALL the OTHER faiths besides Christian. Why assume that it is only Christian or atheist who would benefit from listening to this video? Most of the world's population is NOT Christian.
May I translate this video to portuguese?
HvB is the one
Pretty hilarious when westerners call Hildegard “early”😂
Hymn singing is essentially Protestant. Catholics have an instinct against it. That instinct has to do with the nature of liturgical worship.