Seven Letters (Tonus Peregrinus Album)
''Seven Letters'' is Tonus Peregrinus's first album of unaccompanied choral works by Antony Pitts released on Hyperion Records. The album contains the only-known complete setting of the seven letters from the Book of Revelation. Tracks from the album have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and the opening work ''Adoro Te'' was sung at the memorial for Alexander Litvinenko Alexander Valterovich "Sasha" Litvinenko (30 August 1962 ( at WebCite) or 4 December 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised i ... in 2006. References {{Reflist 2005 classical albums Tonus Peregrinus albums ...
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Tonus Peregrinus
, the wandering tone, or the ninth tone, is a reciting tone in Gregorian chant. The chant example here is not identified as the ''tonus peregrinus'' in the ''Liber usualis'' (see LU, pp. 760–761), although it is in Aeolian mode. For the ''tonus peregrinus'' in its customary usage for Psalm 113, see LU p. 160. Characteristics As a reciting tone the does not fit in any of the original eight church modes, because a verse recited in this tone has a different tenor note in the first half of the verse from the second half of the verse.Lundberg 2012 pp. 7–17 It is this diversion from a single recitation note which gives the name , literally "wanders". Traditionally, the tenor note in the first half of a verse sung according to the is a tone higher than the tenor note in the second half of the verse. Also usually the last note of a melodic formula is a perfect fifth below the first tenor note. History In Gregorian chant the existed before the modal system was expande ...
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