| Q. | What is the difference between Gregorian chant, Organum and Kyrie? | Related Search:
Other - Music | | | Can anybody help me figure out what the difference is between a Gregorian chant, Organum music and Kyrie music?
| | A. | Look here:
Gregorian chant: [Link] 
Organum: [Link]
Kyrie: [Link]
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| Q. | What is the Gregorian calendar factor for century leap years? | Related Search:
History | | | I'm confused. Under the Gregorian calendar, every 400 years we either drop the extra day at the end of Feb--the 29th, or we don't, in order to keep the solar calendar in sync with the civil one. What is the formula? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
| | A. | The Gregorian calendar reform was a modification of a proposal made by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius. Lilius' proposal included reducing the number of leap years in four centuries from 100 to 97, by making 3 out of 4 centurial years common instead of leap years: this part of the proposal had been suggested before by, among others, Pietro Pitati. Lilio also produced an original and practical scheme for adjusting the epacts of the moon for completing the calculation of Easter dates, solving a long-standing difficulty that had faced proposers of calendar reform.
The Gregorian calendar modifies the Julian calendar's regular cycle of leap years, years exactly divisible by four, including all centurial years, as follows:
Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100; the centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are still leap years. For example, the year 1900 is not a leap year; the year 2000 is a leap year.
In addition to the modification of mean length of the calendar year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days, the Gregorian calendar was required to deal with the fact that the error due to the difference between these lengths (10.8 minutes) had been accumulating steadily. Due mostly to this discrepancy, between AD 325 (when the Roman Catholic Church thought the First Council of Nicaea had fixed the vernal equinox on 21 March), and the time of Gregory's edict in 1582, the vernal equinox had moved backward in the calendar, until it was occurring on about 11 March, 10 days early. The Gregorian calendar therefore began by dropping 10 calendar days, to synchronise the calendar and seasons again.
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[Link] / Leap seconds and other aspects | | | |
| Q. | What would the current year be if the Gregorian calendar used the sidereal year? | Related Search:
Astronomy & Space | | | I learned this in astronomy. A tropical year is Earth's full orbital period around the sun. A sidereal year is the the time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the stars. So if the Gregorian calendar used the sidereal, what would the current year be?
| | A. | The Sidereal Year is about 20 minutes longer than the Tropical Year. If we take the starting date of 1582 for the Gregorian calendar, the accumulated difference over the 417 year interval until now would be 417 x 20 minutes, which is about 139 hours or almost 6 days. Thus it would still be the same year, but the date would be November 4th instead of November 10th.
The Tropical Year is defined by the position of the Earth's axis, which rotates due to precession once every 25,800 years. It would therefore take 25,800 years before the sidereal calendar differed by 1 year from the tropical calendar. | | | |
| Q. | Are Gregorian chants usually sung before mass every Sunday while they are setting up the altar? | Related Search:
Religion & Spirituality | | | What kind of churches or mass services incorporate Gregorian chants into their routines? I've gone to churches where they don't sing Gregorian chants at all. Are specific songs sung in a particular time of the year? Does anyone know if "Salve Regina" is sung in March during Lent season? Thanks.
| | A. | It depends entirely on the church. You need to find what episcopalians call a high church. | | | |
| Q. | How to start a Gregorian Chant chior? | Related Search:
Performing Arts | | | I am an artist that teaches. My days are filled with teaching, and my nights are filled singing. ( I sing in the local opera chorus). That being said, I would love to possibly start a gregorian chant chior. It would be a good way to make extra money. Is anyone out there know how to do this?
| | A. | You can't have your eyes on the money. Passion comes first, then money.
Advertise for it. You will need basses, baritones, tenors, and countertenors -- all male choir if you want to be authentic. If you do music of Hildegard von Bingen, then you bring in females. It won't make a lot of money, but when do real musicians ever make a lot? At least we're in a profession that we love! | | | |
| Q. | What countries officially use a different calendar than our Gregorian calendar? | Related Search:
History | | | I think the Gregorian calendar is the most widely accepted "common currency" in our world. Are there countries using other calendars officially, excluding religious time-scale applications of their traditional calendars?
| | A. | The HIndu calendar is used in India for all festivals, ceremonies and many public holidays and it is a lunar calendar. It is referred to as the Indian National Civil Calendar.
There are 12 months of nominal length between 29 and 31 days, depending on the movements of the sun and the moon observed together. The months are:
1. Chaitra
2. Vaishākh
3. Jyaishtha
4. Āshādha
5. Shrāvana
6. Bhaadra or, Bhādrapad
7. Āshwin
8. Kārtik
9. Agrahayana or, Mārgashīrsha
10. Paush
11. Māgh
12. Phālgun
When a month starts and ends is decided by the gurus, depending on the moon and its phases. It is quite a complicated calculation. That is why any month may be of variable length.
Major festivals such as Diwali, Ganesh Chaturti and Holi can vary in their start dates by almost a month because they are timed according to the phases of the moon. In that sense, they are similar to Easter in the Christian year.
The total number of days in the Hindu year falls short of the true seasonal cycle, so extra days and extra months are inserted from time to time to ensure that the solar cycle of about 365.25 days is matched.
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| Q. | How are we to know for sure the Gregorian Saturday is the same sabbath as mentioned in the Bible? | Related Search:
Religion & Spirituality | | | Our current calendar, the Gregorian calendar, was nonexistent during Biblical times. How are people so sure our Saturday is the original seventh day?
| | A. | That's a really interesting question. My hunch is that the days of the week were not established by the Gregorian Calendar. Tuesday (or whatever it was called) before the calendar was devised was still the same day of the week. In other words, there was an unbroken series of weeks, marked by days, going back to the biblical era. But I've not checked to see if this is so. It just seems likely to me.
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