Chant

On Sunday September 13th, Camryn, Airi and I went to a Buddhist service at Honpa Honwanji Mission of Hawaii [(808) 522- 9200] located in Nu’uanu. The service started at 10:00 am and ended at 11:00 pm. This was my very first time going to a religious service outside of school and it was a really good experience. If it weren’t for this project, I don’t think I would have ever considered going to a service. It was really interesting and now I able to be able to see the differences and similarities between Christianity/Episcopalian and Buddhism. The service opened with the “Call to Worship”. This is where the priests entered the room and we chanted the Vandana and Ti- Sarana. This is an ancient chant, where the people express their praise to the Buddha (Vandana) and take refuge in the Three Treasures (Ti- Sarana). The first verse of the Vandana and the Ti- Sarana are sung in Pali, an Indian language that many Buddhist scriptures were written in. The second is sung in English and is chanted slowly. When they first started chanting this, I…

the cheers die down we take a little intermission for ourselves to grab some drinks. By the time we get back to our seats the score was seven to seventeen, we were winning. It nears halftime and Purdue makes two more touchdowns putting the score at twenty-one to seventeen. We weren’t worried because the ball would be ours after halftime and were sure we could get the points we needed. This brings us to halftime! We watch the band perform a series of Bruno Mars’s songs, it was much better than…

In the poem that I was reading this week called “The Secretary Chant” By Marge Piercy. I feel that after reading it that it’s talking about how the working women were valued in the 60s and 70s, also how women felt dehumanized when it came to their work. The reason for this is because in the poem the woman describes herself as all the different supplies in an office. So in a way she is making herself her work. (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012) The figure of speech that is used throughout the poem is…

Navajo Nation: Night Chant The Navajos are people that live in the Southwest of the United States, some of the most well-known Native Americans. The Navajo land—or the “Dine Bikeyah”— in the Southwest is quite large, larger than one-fifth of all the states in the United States and has its own government, and still, to this day, maintains a few of the same traditions and myths that their ancestors did. As in most tribes, for the Medicine Men—who are similar to healers—there is a ritual that is…

instruments have been proven through writings and artifacts. Music passed on through teachers to their students; learning music could therefore be equated with learning any other skill. Rosanne Ambrose-Brown, an author, said, “We know an age more vividly through its music than through its historians.” Sometimes music can more clearly represent an age in history than the historical facts themselves. In the latter centuries of this era, the church played a key part in the development of…

to sing chants, although still not entirely correct, was such a time consuming and arduous process until the medieval music scholar and teacher Guido introduced new methods. Guido’s teaching of solmization and Guidonian hand had a major impact on the way music was practiced and learned, to the point where it contributed significantly to the notation system and methods we use today. Therefore, I will discuss, in detail, the approaches that Guido came up with to resolve the issues of that time…

The Secretary Chant is a poem written by Marge Piercy. Marge Piercy is a novelist, poet, and social activist. She is also wrote many other poems such as Barbie Doll, To Be Of Use, A Work Of Artifice, and many more. The subject of The Secretary Chant is about a secretary who is exhausted of her career. She is overworked of echoing the same aspects of her job. For every poem Marge Piercy writes, she has a message to the readers. I think the message that she is trying announce is that humans get…

Gregorian chant. This style of music was often listened to in churches during that era. The Gregorian chant was composed of Latin language and performed without instruments. The chants came in various genres all depending on their religious purpose. Some of them consisted of monotone with a slight change in pitch, while others consisted of hundreds of notes over an octave. The chants share two characteristics forms. One of them is nonmetrical, which does not have a clear meter, has a free…

“Alle Psallite Cum Luya” is a three part motet composed during the Gothic Period in France. It is 27 measures long, in triple meter, sung in Latin, and has three parts: Triplum, Duplum and Tenor. It is made to empower the Crusaders spiritually by God via the inclusion of spiritual numbers and has as a Gregorian Chant (Cantus Firmus) sung by the tenors. Through the lyrics, music, and interconnected logic, the composer is able to communicate the message of spreading Christianity during the…

The songs I choose are Drupad Indian music; Georgian chanting; troubadour music; Handel: Messiah, Hallejuah Chorus; Bob Dylan, Like The Rolling Stone; Glass: koyaanisqatsi section and John Luther Adams: The Light that fills the world The Dhrupad music is chanting Vedic hymns and mantras. In the background there is string instrument playing in lower sound than the chanting completing it. It can be used as prayer, meditation and yoga. The Georgian Chant is liturgical music chanted in the church…