When Melody Died: Fom Gregorian Chant to Chaos: How Music Mirrors Our Fall

WATCH THE VIDEOS below, especially the Folklore ones (took me a while to find them):

There’s a structure to classical music.
From the sacred simplicity of Gregorian chant to the turmoil of Beethoven — and finally to the rhythm-obsessed pulse of our modern age — this video explores how music mirrors the state of our civilization.
When melody dies, meaning dies.
When harmony dominates, we live for feeling.
When rhythm dominates, we live for force.
What does our music tell us about who we’ve become — and what we’ve lost?

Topics explored:
• The spiritual structure of music (melody, harmony, rhythm)
• True Gregorian Chant (not professional) as prayer vs. performance
• Beethoven and the struggle between reason and passion
• The disappearance of melody in modern music
• What the death of melody reveals about the modern soul
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Gorgeous Polyphany: Beauty of the Mass, etc. In this case, rather than Palestrina, his teacher: Cristobal de Morales (1500-1553). "Parce Mihi, Domine" . Toward the end of his life, Morales was Maestro de Capilla at Toledo Cathedral, Spain , with many of his works contained in the cathedral library's collection of huge bound choir-books. "St Peter", by El Greco, hangs in the sacristy of the cathedral.
• 'Parce mihi, Domine' by Morales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06moNqUH2Ng

Gregorian Chant, (Fake, not Prayer, Professsional Choir, Music only, but not the worst example I've found)
• Chant of the Mystics: O Filii Et Filiae (P...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZWIVMY82A

Gregorian Chant - only half fake. Most authentic I could find with limited time. Neverthelss, still 'recordings' of the Mass, so still performing though by authentic players,. So authentic but not under authentic circumstances,
• Gregorian Chants to the Archangel Michael ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZWIVMY82A
Videos named:
Music played to animals:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inb...

Spanish: Celtic
Galicia (Western Spain): a few old guys - friends -who would usually meet at the village tabern, started singing old songs, eventually sang at the village square, became popular and recorded an album and became famous. Celtic tradition:
• Treixadura - Foliada marmuradora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8-L81EAF8

Spanish, Aragon, Northern Spain
Children dancing: • La jota que robó el corazón de los oscenses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAbidhHWLAU

The real thing: 'Song to Aragon' in Zaragoza - at the back is the statue of the Virgin symbolising the Virgin of the Pillar (appeared to the Apostle St. James when he came to preach in Spain, promising his preaching would bear fruit. This is the tradition. Veneration to 'Our Mother' is 'HUGE' in Aragon:
• "Gran Jota" de 'La Dolores'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi8Nc4vTvgk

And here, again, outside the Cathedral, ordinary Youth honoring 'Mother of Aragon':
• En honor a la Virgen del Pilar, la juventu...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZT8dBVrRAc

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