GREGORIAN MUSIC.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 278, 25 November 1887, Page 5

GREGORIAN MUSIC.

|Sr" we announcement which recently j ■BWdin pur columns, to the effect that i to hold a Gregorian festival i- Church at an early date, a ; ■"Banypereons have asked the ques--0 Bα , '^" , Gre S°rian music ?" Witha ß*inginto technicalities, it is difficult feher than to say that it is ie «F^ tten certa »» u'xed modes, 14 in ;»;BS ~S need exclusively i n the services ImI» tor many centuries—not bewas unknown, but bewas considered sufficiently j ! otional forsuch a purpose. Ted, n °k' as man .V suppose, Gregory the Great was *Rifew BSe i 6 in the service oi tne : 7J»w>m.:his having elaborated a SKm forits use in connection with 'teWL™* , Gradually music of a lighter i jK W ia lnitte(, ' and ' h y degrees,entHKtm place of fche more an cient fflKku to 7 ears in various quarters se^n > a most successful Bslr^? atie to resfc ore to its proper •K«f « many regard as the le ° !ti " Stt I sanctuary. It is with *My^'.™.foster this effort that the f-BtfS ,8 to beheld at Sb. Thomas's MJ ~f> Andrew's Eve (29th inst.) fwliU* n S ed - The choir of the infflhtistwif cc)nsi( lerably strengthened ? W the other city churches, e»yfS^ lpated that there will be |»sii' n ° lee \ S0 that the effect of the ic!l is a characteristic fflP^W^ii 8,18 ' 0 ' shouW be ye fine - l tton l!l ffll a° onsisiof festal evr;nson K m n Pf;alms and Canticles )^B«^> re gorian tones, and the eWk! ISCn ' The off 'cc liymn, and Mty tE: ea t ndafter the.sermon, will HwES bat tl° ancienfc Gregorian .att hym n P r °cessional and redUE'fft'of ti n ° fc bein "» strictly speakJMhlii te . lt l c . office, will be sung to ■R*-Bfoi?; ! j ha ™ony- His Lord - l n sev eral of the clergy r »M% J? Jf, Present, and the Rev. W ' A,l Saints' Church, will "lilN'tJ 6 "?™ , Jt m ay be fi | • bre K° r ian music has 'i^K^ifJ" 1186 afc St. Thomas's iHR'idV!?" , P asfc ' at the week'ilHLHAf ■ ° ce lebration of the JIKWu,] a ? d the Ancient and flllHS'tthis t llas been recently JBK* l i«id i C ~r ch g iv es alternative lllß^ciiJft ,1 cha »ts for every A considerable num■KHnv" f v" bfc . avail themselves m$ hi l J lo nrin J? church music ■^ iB A«£ q d, thei ' t0 been almost