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Chant School

Florianiwww.floriani.org
Love Gregorian Chant but can't sing it? The Chant School podcast is designed to help you sing the ancient chants of the Church with ease. In the Chant School, you will learn the most ancient melodies and texts in the Christian tradition. St. Hugh of Cluny once spoke of how the learning, practicing, and singing of Gregorian chant is a sure way to grow in holiness, in closeness to the Word, and in submission to the discipline of singing God’s praises. Floriani has taken these words to heart, and it is our intent to inspire and educate the next generation of Catholic musicians in the spirit of this beautiful inheritance. We hope you enjoy learning how to sing Gregorian Chant -- the greatest artistic treasure of the Catholic Church!
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Episodes

Vexilla Regis | The Triumph of the Holy Cross

Link to Music The Royal Banner forward goes, The mystic Cross refulgent glows: Where He, in Flesh, flesh who made, Upon the Tree of pain is laid. Behold! The nails with anguish fierce, His outstretched arms and vitals pierce: Here our redemption to obtain, The Mighty Sacrifice is slain. Here the fell spear his wounded side With ruthless onset opened wide: To wash us in that cleansing flood, Thence mingled Water flowed, and Blood. Fulfilled is all that David told In true prophetic song, of old: U...

Sep 11, 202417 minSeason 1Ep. 122

Anglorum Jam Apostolus | St. Gregory the Great: Apostle to the Angli and Companion of the Angels

Link to Music 1. O Gregory, that once wast the apostle of the Angli, and now art a companion of the angels! protect now, as of old, the nations that believe in Christ. 2. Thou spurnest wealth and riches and all the glory of the world, that so thou, being poor, mayst follow the Lord Jesus, who was poor. 3. An angel presents himself to thee, in the garb of one that was shipwrecked, and asks an alms; thou first makest him a double gift, and then thou givest him a silver vase. 4. After this, Christ ...

Sep 04, 202416 minSeason 1Ep. 121

Invicte Martyr | John the Baptist - Invincible Martyr!

Link to Music 1. Martyr of God, whose strength was steeled To follow close God's only Son, Well didst thou brave thy battlefield, And well thy heavenly bliss was won! 2. Now join thy prayers with ours, who pray That God may pardon us and bless; For prayer keeps evil's plague away, And draws from life its weariness. 3. Long, long ago, were loosed the chains That held thy body once in thrall; For us how many a bond remains! O love of God release us all. 4. All praise to God the Father be, All prai...

Aug 28, 202410 minSeason 1Ep. 120

Gemma Caelestis | Benedict, Precious Jewel of the King of Heaven

Link to Music Benedict, precious jewel of the King of Heaven, Model for the just and way for monks, Call us forth From this troubled world. Spurning what was base, you set your heart on the stars. You made heirs of your parents, For you, God's perfect vessel, Were fit to repair a shattered one. Great among a small company of hermits You overcame your youthfulness and excelled in your labor As you fervently undertook The narrow beginnings of the strict life. When a youth was buried in the rubble ...

Jul 10, 202420 minSeason 1Ep. 113

Tu Trinitatis Unitas | A Hymn for the Blessed Trinity

Link to Music O Three in One, and One in Three, Who rulest all things mightily: Bow down to hear the songs of praise Which, freed from bonds of sleep, we raise. While lingers yet the peace of night, We rouse us from our slumbers light: That might of instant prayer may win The healing balm for wounds of sin. If, by the wiles of Satan caught, This night-time we have sinned in aught, That sin Thy glorious power to-day, From heaven descending, cleanse away. Let naught impure our bodies stain, No lag...

Jul 03, 202410 minSeason 1Ep. 112

Aurea Luce et Decor | Hymn to the Princes of the Apostles

Link to Music 1. O light of dawn, O rosy glow, O Light from Light, all ages show Your beauty, and the martyrs fame, That gain us pardon from our blame. 2. The heavens' porter, and earth’s sage,The world’s bright lights who judge the age. One wins by cross, and one by sword, And life on high is their reward. 3. These are your princes, happy Rome! Their precious blood clothes you, their home. We praise not you, but praise their worth, Beyond all beauty of the earth. 4. Kind Shepherd, Peter, unto t...

Jun 26, 202417 minSeason 1Ep. 111

Aeterni Christi Munera | The Victory of the Martyrs

Link to Music ‘Let us sing with joyful hearts And bearing the praise which we owe Of eternal gifts of Christ And the victories of the martyrs Princes of the churches, [5] triumphal leaders of the war, soldiers of the heavenly court, and true lights of the world, After the terrors of the world are conquered, And the punishment of the body scorned, [10] They take hold of the blessed light Through a direct path: holy death. Martyrs are handed over to the flames, and to the teeth of beasts; the fren...

Jun 19, 202415 minSeason 1Ep. 110

Quem Terra Pontus Aethera and O Gloriosa Domina | St. Anthony of Padua's Favorite Hymn!

Link to Music - Quem Terra Link to Music - O Gloriosa Domina The God whom earth, and sea, and sky adore, and laud, and magnify, who o'er their threefold fabric reigns, the Virgin's spotless womb contains. The God whose will by moon, and sun, and all things in due course is done, is borne upon a Maiden's breast, by fullest heavenly grace possessed. How blest that Mother, in whose shrine the great Artificer Divine, whose hand contains the earth and sky, vouchsafed, as in His ark, to lie. Blest, in...

Jun 12, 202416 minSeason 1Ep. 109

En Ut Superba Criminum | Our Sins Have Pierced the Sacred Heart

Link to Music Lo, how the savage crew Of our proud sins hath rent The Heart of our all-gracious God, That Heart so innocent. The soldiers quivering lance Our guilt it was that drave, Our wicked deeds that to its point Such cruel sharpness gave. O wounded Heart, whence sprang The Church, the Saviours bride; Thou Door of our Salvations Ark Set in its mystic side. Thou holy fount, whence flows The sacred sevenfold flood. Where we our filthy roles may cleanse In the Lambs saving Blood: By sorrowful ...

Jun 05, 202419 minSeason 1Ep. 108

Anima Christi | Soul of Christ, Sanctify Me!

Link to Music Sanctify me wholly, Soul of Christ adored; Be my sure Salvation, Body of the Lord: Fill and satisfy me, O Thou Blood unpriced: Wash me, Sacred Water, from the side of Christ. Passion of my Saviour, be my strength in need: Good and gracious Jesus, to my prayer give heed: In Thy Wounds most precious let me refuge find: All the power malignant of the foeman bind: At deaths final hour, call me to Thy face: Bid me stand beside Thee in the heavenly place: There with Saints and Angels I s...

May 29, 202414 minSeason 1Ep. 107

Beata Nobis Gaudia | A Whitsuntide Hymn

Link to Music Round roll the weeks our hearts to greet, With blissful joy returning; For lo! The Holy Paraclete On twelve bright brows sits burning: With quivering flame He lights on each, In fashion like a tongue, to teach That eloquent they are of speech, Their hearts with true love yearning. While with all tongues they speak to all, The nations deem them maddened, And drunk with wine the Prophets call, Whom God’s good Spirit gladdened; A marvel this—in mystery done— The holy Paschaltide outru...

May 22, 202421 minSeason 1Ep. 106

Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat | A Hymn for Pentecost

Link to Music 1. Now Christ, ascending whence He came, Had mounted o'er the starry frame, The Holy Ghost on man below, The Father's promise, to bestow. 2. The solemn time was drawing nigh, Replete with heav'nly mystery, On seven days' sevenfold circles borne, That first and blessed Whitsunmorn. 3. When the third hour shone all around, There came a rushing mighty sound, And told the Apostles, while in prayer, That, as was promised, God was there. 4. Forth from the Father's light it came, That bea...

May 15, 202414 minSeason 1Ep. 105

Salutis Humanae Sator | A Hymn for the Ascension

Link to Music Hail, Thou who man’s Redeemer art, Jesu, the joy of every heart; Great Maker of the world’s wide frame, And purest love’s delight and flame: What nameless mercy Thee o’ercame, To bear out load of sin and shame? For guiltless, Thou Thy life didst give, That sinful erring man might live. The realms of woe are forced by Thee, Its captives from their chains set free; And Thou, amid Thy ransomed train, At God’s right hand dost victor reign. Let mercy sweet with Thee prevail, To cure the...

May 08, 202414 minSeason 1Ep. 104

Claro Paschali Gaudio | In This Our Bright and Paschal Day

Link to Music IN THIS our bright and Paschal day the sun shines out with purer ray, when Christ, to earthly sight made plain, the glad Apostles see again. The wounds, the riven wounds he shows in that his flesh with light that glows, in loud accord both far and nigh the Lord's arising testify. O Christ, the King who lovest to bless, do thou our hearts and souls possess; to thee our praise that we may pay, to whom our laud is due for aye....

May 01, 202414 minSeason 1Ep. 103

Aurora Lucis Rutilat | Light's Glittering Morn Bedecks the Sky

Link to Music Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky, heaven thunders forth its victor cry, the glad earth shouts its triumph high, and groaning hell makes wild reply: 2 While he, the King of glorious might, treads down death's strength in death's despite, and trampling hell by victor's right, brings forth his sleeping Saints to light. 3 Fast barred beneath the stone of late in watch and ward where soldiers wait, now shining in triumphant state, He rises Victor from death's gate. 4 Hell's pains...

Apr 24, 202410 minSeason 1Ep. 102

Ad Cenam Agni Providi | At the Feast of the Lamb

Link to Music 1. The Lamb's high banquet we await in snow-white robes of royal state: and now, the Red Sea's channel past, to Christ our Prince we sing at last. 2. Upon the Altar of the Cross His Body hath redeemed our loss: and tasting of his roseate Blood, our life is hid with Him in God. 3. That Paschal Eve God's arm was bared, the devastating Angel spared: by strength of hand our hosts went free from Pharaoh's ruthless tyranny. 4. Now Christ, our Paschal Lamb, is slain, the Lamb of God that ...

Apr 17, 202413 minSeason 1Ep. 101

Vidi Aquam | I Saw Water Flowing Out of the Temple

Link to Music I saw water flowing out of the Temple , from its right side, Alleluia: And all to whom this water came were saved, And they shall say: Alleluia, Alleluia.

Apr 10, 202411 minSeason 1Ep. 100

Crux Fidelis | O Faithful Cross!

Link to Music Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle, [1] With completed victory rife: And above the Cross's trophy Tell the triumph of the strife: How the world's Redeemer conquer'd By surrendering of His Life. God his Maker, sorely grieving That the first-made Adam fell, When he ate the fruit of sorrow, Whose reward was death and hell, Noted then this Wood, the ruin Of the ancient wood to quell. For the work of our Salvation Needs would have his order so, And the multiform deceiver's Art by art ...

Mar 27, 202419 minSeason 1Ep. 98

Te Decet Laus | Monastic Doxology

Link to Music Today we learn a short doxology -- sung in Monasteries and the Eastern Rites of the Church -- dating back to the 4th century! Thou art worthy of praise, thou art worthy of hymns, to Thee be glory: to God the Father and the Son with the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

Sep 20, 20237 minSeason 1Ep. 96

O Quam Glorifica | O How Glorious Is Our Mother!

Link to Music Today we learn a wonderful hymn to our glorious mother! August 15 - 22nd is a little octave of Our Lady, and this hymn should be a part of everyone's celebration of her Assumption and Crowning.

Aug 23, 202317 minSeason 1Ep. 95

Salve Regina (Solemn Tone) | My Favorite Gregorian Chant

Link to Music Learn to sing the Solemn Tone of the Salve Regina. This beautiful Marian Antiphon is traditionally sung after the Rosary and after Night Prayer during Ordinary time. Mary has also revealed in visions that this is one of her favorites!

Aug 16, 202319 minSeason 1Ep. 94
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