How to Read Gregorian Chant (7)

[mattgillcatholic]

Thank you for putting these up Jeff, we all appreciate the time you spend doing this for Christ and His Church.

[millennial]

Hexachordal solmization is better. As we have a melody which range goes from low E to high C we need combine two hexachords: natural hexachord starting on C (do re mi fa sol la) dropping out bottoms notes (do and re) and a hard hexachord starting on G (sol la si do re mi) dropping out top notes (re and mi). As we need to mutate from one hexachord to another we do it "alla quinta". Thus we sing the scale like that: going up as do re mi fa sol RE MI FA and going down as FA MI la sol fa mi re do. The melody on this video gets so:

la sol fa sol la sol
la FA MI FA la sol fa sol sol
RE FA MI FA RE MI FA la sol la sol
mi fa sol la la sol

[desiderioelielton]

What do you think about solmization and guidonian hand for gregorian chant solfeggio?

[amircruz]

what is that? Sounds great listening to it.

[Gerryvideos]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but aren't you singing the 6th last note wrong each time? Shouldn't it be one note lower?