Hallelujah
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The Alleluia is a piece of liturgical music in the proper of the Mass Catholic. It is usually sung before the reading of the Gospel. The Alleluia is a Responsorial singing the proper of the Mass.
The acclamation took many uses in the primitive liturgies. It was particularly used during the Easter season (between Easter and Pentecost), probably because of the association between the psalms and the alleluia Easter time. Meanwhile liturgical acclamation is added at the end of each anthem, and even replace the Easter Alleluia gradual which normally takes place between the two biblical readings.
In contrast, the acclamation is omitted during the penitential season, mainly Lent. In this case, the Alleluia is replaced by a trait. But more generally, the Alleluia is replaced by acclamation at the Word of God (Gospel), for example: "Your Word, O Lord, thy law is truth and deliverance" or "Glory to You Lord, Glory to Thee" before and after the verse as an introduction to the Gospel.
The Alleluias were frequently the subject of tropes. It is generally assumed that the sequences originate from tropes adding text to the tune of syllabic Jubilus, the sequence then being named after the corresponding verse of the Alleluia.
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Gregorian Alleluia Directory
In Gregorian chant, to clean the Mass, the play of the Alleluia is composed of:
- The Hallelujah itself (in two parts separated by an asterisk).
- The neum (or Jubilus), extension of free speech "A" final "Alleluia.
- A verse (in two parts separated by an asterisk).
These three parties own melodies, sometimes constructed from types of melodies. This is the incipit of the verse which gives its name to the Alleluia.
The musical style of the Alleluia is generally neumatic , with passages melismatic. However, his vocal range is generally small: the Alleluia from Christmas Eve, for example, is limited to a straight (but it is an extreme and somewhat atypical).
The Jubilus has a liturgical meaning. Praise contained in the Alleluia is not human, it is the heavenly worship that expresses the joy eternal and divine. This joy is indescribable, and for the release of the imperfection of words, it is represented by a long wordless melisma. St Augustine says: "he who exults not be expressed by words."
Interpreting the classic Hallelujah
If we must say with the Alleluia verse:
- The first Alleluia is sung (by one or two singers) to the asterisk.
- The chorus then repeats hallelujah (with the exception of the second Alleluia at Easter time, for which we do not repeat).
- The choir then added Jubilus (or neum) on a final.
- The singers perform while the beginning of the verse, to the asterisk, and the chorus ends the verse from the asterisk. (In practice, the alternation of verse to the asterisk is not respected.)
Verse completed (and if not the first paschal alleluia), the singers repeat the Alleluia from the beginning and the chorus only adds neum (or Jubilus), but without recovery.
In ordinary times, we sing hallelujah So three times, twice before the verse, and once after. At Easter time, there is gradual at first Easter Alleluia, followed by a second Alleluia, alleluia, and each is interpreted twice, making four in all. For the first alleluia, alleluia is sung with the verse before recovery, but we do not repeat the Alleluia and the verse after neum. For the second alleluia, alleluia is sung without recovery before the verse, and taken up with his neum after the verse.
Alleluia of the Office
The Hallelujah classics Gregorian Mass are hardly interpreted in modern liturgies. They are most often replaced by ex Alleluia, antiphons whose form is typical: three hallelujahs in a syllabic style. In the regular office Gregorian Alleluia there are two such for each day of the week, one for the Office of Lauds and the other for Vespers.
The simple alleluia chosen for the Mass by the "Jubilate Deo" is probably how most became part of the repertoire sung Gregorian.
Alleluia in the liturgy of the Mass
The Alleluia is normally a song. If we do not sing the Alleluia or verse before the Gospel, we can omit the reading. The verse is a part of this song, we should at least chant. You can choose your text in the choices offered.
The congregation stands. Lechantre intones three hallelujahs, which are taken first by the crowd. Then he sings only the verse before the Gospel. The tone of the verse is not necessarily the psalm tone classic, because the text is usually translated in this case in the vernacular. Then the crowd resumed full anthem concludes.
Alleluia in contemporary music
- Many musicians and musical groups performed songs titled Hallelujah, as the artist in New York Jeff Buckley repeating a song written by Leonard Cohen , the group German of industrial metal rammstein , the Russian singer Olga Arefiev, or even the group pop- rock Paramore in his album Riot! It also indicates the formation Magma that makes use of the word Hallelujah in several pieces, especially in the third part of KA a relatively new album.
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