How to Respect Mawlid An-Nabi
Mawlid An-Nabi, celebrated by many Muslims throughout the world, commemorates the birth date of the Prophet Muhammad (A.D. 570--A.D. 632). While Mawlid An-Nabi falls on varying dates on the Gregorian solar calendar, it occurs on the twelfth day ... [... more]
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The Restoration of Gregorian Chant: Solesmes and the ...
 The Treasure of Solesmes: "The Restoration of Gregorian Chant" is a multicultural icon, an illuminare moving us through a hall of ecclesiastical mirrors with distant echoes of the Spirit in sound, a labyrinthian caravan of chant development, [... more]
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How to Celebrate Greek Easter
Keep in mind that the date of Greek or Orthodox Easter is still calculated on the Julian calendar, which is some 13 days behind the more modern Gregorian calendar. Greek Orthodox Easter should fall on the Sunday that follows the first full moon ... [... more]
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How to Appreciate New Year's Day
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day falls on January 1st, exactly seven days after Christmas Day. Most observers of the Gregorian New Year recognize the day as a typical holiday, these days without religious connotation in most cases. In ... [... more]
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How to Calculate the Start of Chinese New Years
For over three thousand years, the Chinese have utilized a special calendar based on exact astronomical calculations using the dates of the new moon and the longitude of the sun to set their years. Although China today uses the Gregorian calendar ... [... more]
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Gregorian Freak Show
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At the Monastery (Gregorian Chant)
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Gregorian Soprano Chime
Gregorian Soprano Chime [... more]
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Entrances: Gregorian Chant in Daily Life
Entirely orthodox, and true to boot: If we claim that the Bible is the Word of God, alive and active and with the power to "read us", just exactly how does that work? What does that insight look and feel and taste and sound like? The early [... more]
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The Gregorian Missal for Sundays
Latin good; the ICEL English translation reeks !: The Gregorian Missal's music (in neumes) is fine, the Latin easy to read and user friendly--but the English translations are embarassingly bad, and willfully inept. The ICEL deliberately stripped the [... more]
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How to Get Someone Wet on April Fool's Day
Pranksters have played jokes on April Fool's Day, or April 1st, since the late 1500s when the Charles IX and the Gregorian calendar moved New Year's Day from late March and early April to January 1st. Some refused to acknowledge the change and ... [... more]
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Jan Swafford
JAN SWAFFORD received degrees from Harvard and the Yale School of Music and is the author of The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and ... [... more]
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