VIVA LA VIDA
GREGORIAN BAND
SONGWRITERS: CHRIS
MARTIN; GUY BERRYMAN; JONNY BUCKLAND & WILL CHAMPION.
COUNTRY: GERMAN
ALBUM: GREGORIAN 20/2020
LABEL: EDEL RECORDS
GENRE: GREGORIAN CHANT
YEAR: 2020
Gregorian is
a German band headed by Frank Peterson that performs Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern pop and rock songs. The
band features both vocal harmony and instrumental accompaniment. They competed in Unser Lied für Stockholm the German national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Masters of Chant". They
placed 5th in the first round of the public voting, missing the top 3. They
gained 9.06% of the public vote.
Gregorian
chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin
(and occasionally Greek) of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central
Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
Gregorian
chants were organized initially into four, then eight, and finally 12 modes. Typical melodic features include a
characteristic ambitus, and also characteristic intervallic patterns
relative to a referential mode final, incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones at a particular distance from the
final, around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of
musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related
chants. The scale patterns are organized against a background pattern formed of
conjunct and disjunct tetrachords, producing a larger pitch system called the gamut. The chants can be sung by using six-note patterns called hexachords. Gregorian melodies are traditionally written using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern four-line and five-line staff developed. Multi-voice elaborations
of Gregorian chant, known as organum, were an early stage in the development of Western polyphony.
Gregorian
chant was traditionally sung by choirs
of men and boys in churches, or by men and women of religious orders in their chapels. It is the music of
the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office. Although Gregorian chant supplanted or
marginalized the other indigenous plainchant traditions of the Christian West
to become the official music of the Christian liturgy, Ambrosian chant still continues in use in Milan, and
there are musicologists exploring both that and the Mozarabic chant of Christian Spain. Although
Gregorian chant is no longer obligatory, the Roman Catholic Church still
officially considers it the music most suitable for worship. During the 20th
century, Gregorian chant underwent a musicological and popular resurgence.
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead!
Long live the king!
One minute I held the
key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem
bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I
can't explain
Once you'd gone, there was never
Never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
It was the wicked and
wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem
bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I
can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Hear Jerusalem bells
are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I
can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world.
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