Mozarabic chant - Beatus vir

Chant of the mozarabic tradition.
Title: Psallendo - "Beatus vir".
Performers: Ensemble Organum, Director: Marcel Peres
Album: "Chant Mozarabe"

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• Mozarabic
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• Christian
• Western

[ScapularSaves]

Hmm... this sounds more like Byzantine Chant.

I heard the Monks of Slios, who celebrate the Mozarabic Liturgy which is unique but sounds more like Gallican Chant.

I also saw a false group claiming "Hispanic Orthodox" as if this ever existed in Catholic Spain, and they claim to sing Mozarabic Chant.

Mozarabics are Latin Roman Catholics in union with Rome, and their rite was located in Cathedral of Toledo, and preserved at Silos.

Who are the singers of this? That will tell me more...

[Callixtinus]

Ensemble Organum. And by the way, the lead singer is Lycourgos Angelopoulos, who is a chanter of Byzantine music, maybe that's why the style is seemingly byzantine like (much vibrato). However, the piece does not sound byzantine, it just has a slight "fragrance" because of the lead singer and the Ensemble's style.

[gbmtmas]

East and West viewed things differently from an early date. I think the real problem developed when each side--East and West, sought to impose the regional theology of their local Fathers on the rest of the Church. This is especially true with respect to the discussion about the procession of the Holy Spirit.

[DanVilAl]

This is the Psallendum for a martyr pontifice.

Beatus vir qui non habiit in consilium impiorum; sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius.

Et erit tanquam lignum quod plantatus est secus decursus aquorum, et omnia quecumque fecerit prosperabuntur

Beatus vir qui non habiit in consilium impiorum; sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius

[joesuaiden]

@ScapularSaves Spain was Orthodox before the schism. The council of Burgos destroyed Hispania's remaining independence from Rome. "Mozarabic" was originally a slur used towards the indigenous Romano-Gothic populace and practices of Spain, to justify their switch to the roman rite. Gradually, the people who preserved these practices were "Mozarabs". As often happens with nomenclature, eventually they considered it a badge of honor.

[joesuaiden]

@bokeronbreakz This is incorrect.

[catholicpeter]

@gbmtmas I think it is a barrier of language that caused it. Greek and Latin seem to be saying the exact same thing though in different language. May God bring all into the One fold again.

[ImperialGuard9001]

@homocorpus True. Perhaps the "Middle Ages" should star in reign of Constantine.

[homocorpus]

@ImperialGuard9001 eastern ROMAN EMPIRE is the byzantine empire .i know this name (byzantine )is a modern term but after constantine the great .roman empire is an other empire.

[Edithalba1844]

@gjlander100 Yes, I am wondering also about a Byzantine influence... If you should find out more about this, would you please share it with me? Thanks!

[bokeronbreakz]

Mozarab were the christians in muslim Spain (Al-Andalus). An Hispanic "arabized" but christian. For this reason we can see the "oriental" influence in the music.

[gjlander100]

This is clearly of Byzantine influence - somehow. The voice production - nasal tone, and embellishment, is a dead give-away. Now this may be the cantor's background or it may be lost in the history of the chant and the Spanish liturgy.

[ScapularSaves]

Have you told this view to the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos? If so what was their response? Are you Spanish?