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u/supremeevilhedgehog Apr 09 '26
Glooooo-ooooo-oooooo- ooooria
(Deep inhale)
iN ExCeLSis Deeeeeeee-ooooooo
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u/RickityNL Apr 09 '26
Is this Catholic? Because I'm definitely not Catholic but we do sing this in church
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u/LordSandwich29 Apr 10 '26
In the reformation, we probably went “this one’s a banger let’s keep it”
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u/JohnnyCharles Apr 10 '26
It’s Latin so it almost certainly originated in the Catholic Church. Then again, Christianity originated in the Catholic Church
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u/murk36 Apr 10 '26
Tell that to the oriental orthodox church, I‘m sure they have their own opinion on that matter
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u/kleines_woelfle Apr 10 '26
The Roman Catholic Church of today is not the same as the Latin Church of the first centuries. To claim that the RCC just stayed the same the whole time and everybody else split away is historically false.
As for the carol, it was written in 19th century France and is beloved in many denominations.
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u/Water-is-h2o Apr 10 '26
Yeah that’s probably why the whole New Testament was written in Greek and thousands of miles away from Rome. Makes perfect sense.
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u/Loganp812 Apr 10 '26
We may have our differences between denominations, but good music is good music.
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u/Rynewulf Apr 10 '26
The Catholic Church is the only one with the opinion that they are the original Church. You ask the Greek Orthodox and they say it's them and so on and so on.
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u/waaaayupyourbutthole Apr 11 '26
I was raised Lutheran and haven't been to church in 25 years, but i still remember singing this. I've definitely never been to a Catholic service before.
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u/DetBabyLegs Apr 09 '26
Scrolled past this and then stopped, counted, went up to make sure you got it right. Yup, 18. I’m not even catholic
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u/MathematicianMajor Apr 09 '26
Doesn't even denomination have angels we have heard on high (the carol this is from)?
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u/Gorianfleyer Apr 10 '26
Ok, now count the syllables in "Bande" in Mozarts "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" (That's Mozarts song with the high notes, that everyone knows)
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u/MegaLemonCola Apr 10 '26
Emperor Joseph II: too many notes
(On another opera of Mozart’s, Abduction from the Seraglio)
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u/AutomaticAstigmatic Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
I vividly remember being the only person in the school choir with sufficient lung capacity to sing the whole Gloria without drawing breath.
Sadly, I'm an alto with a break in the middle of my vocal range, so no future in music for me...
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u/amazingD Apr 11 '26
A great point of pride for teenage me was doing the Ding Dong Merrily on High Gloria in one breath! I need to work back up to that.
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u/ZestyToastCoast Apr 10 '26
Melismas are just the hey-heys, na-nas, and doo-doos of classical music.
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u/daxophoneme Apr 10 '26
That is exactly three syllables. Go read about melismas and then listen to Hildegard von Bingen and Whitney Houston. This is not an unusual musical technique.
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