does any one have chamber music with chanting in it? I like the darkness in them. i have a few on a cd my friend burnt me but i havent had time to rip it yet. give me some please!

What do you mean by chanting?

with chamber do you mean "church" ? :unsure: , if it's , try with Bach , he is well know for his religious's music , however, maybe the "Toccata e Fuga in Dm" by Bach (midi: http://mfiles.co.uk/downloads/toccata-and-fugue-dm.mid , pdf: http://mfiles.co.uk/scores/Toccata-and-Fugue-Dm.pdf )(one of the most famous pieces ever :lol: ) can be considered as a chamber music? :unsure:
(ps: chating is sing ? :think: , maybe the "Ave Maria" by Schubert (or is it Schuman?, or Bach again ? :unsure: , however, the "Toccata e Fuga in Dm" is more darkness that this last one, that's for sure... :think: ))

I think you mean chanting like Gregorian or something like that. I don't really know a chamber music piece with chants, but Bach isn't a wrong hint. But he didn't wrote that much chamber music, mostly solos and string orchestra/choir pieces. There's a chanted part in George Crumb's "Music For A Summer Evening" (great piece), but it is a "composed" and not an actual chant.

@JcKaji2: There's an 'Ave Maria' by Schubert or Schumann (not 100% sure which one, because I don't like German romanticism, but definately not Schuman, that's a different guy), and there's an 'Ave Maria' on the C-Major prelude by Bach. Some frenchman (I think Auber, but I'm not 100% sure) thought there was no melody in the prelude, and so composed an extremely cheesy melody for it: an Ave Maria was born.

P.S: I just finished a piece based on a chorale ("O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf"), but it's for strings with 4 wind instruments and again no chamber music.

I was also going to say Gergorian... however, there's some music by (don't kill me) Elliot Del Borgo that has some of the feel you're looking for and is really easy. I don't think it's meant for chamber; in fact... it's meant for middle-average high school string orchestra. :death: (I swore never to bring up his name again... ah well)

At any rate, it has a rather ancient, interesting feel to it. There isn't a part actually written for the chanting, but I'm sure you could add your own...

Gergorian, i love it :drool: , however, thank for correct me kappa ^_^

Originally posted by Kappa@Jun 18 2005, 04:14 PM
@JcKaji2: There's an 'Ave Maria' by Schubert or Schumann (not 100% sure which one, because I don't like German romanticism, but definately not Schuman, that's a different guy), and there's an 'Ave Maria' on the C-Major prelude by Bach. Some frenchman (I think Auber, but I'm not 100% sure) thought there was no melody in the prelude, and so composed an extremely cheesy melody for it: an Ave Maria was born.
That would be Schubert who wrote one version of Ave Maria, not Schumann (I don't think Schuman exists o.0). And I believe it was Gounod, not Auber, who added that melody to one of Bach's preludes =P Although I don't think the melody is cheesy at all, but that's my opinion . . and I think there's a third famous Ave Maria, but I don't remember it, meh . .

Gregorian chants eh? I have a cd at home . . don't really listen to it :heh:

Originally posted by Al@Jun 19 2005, 01:03 PM
. . and I think there's a third famous Ave Maria, but I don't remember it, meh . .
well, it looks like that Liszt did a transcription for piano of "Ave Maria" too :think: ( http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/compositions_b/lzharpo2.pdf ), maybe is it the third that you're speaking about? :unsure:

Hmm, I haven't heard this version before . . this may be it? *shrugs* xP

@Al: Yeah, it's Gounod. I just don't like Romantic music (the style), so I always forget who wrote that piece. The story behind it is true, though. There is a Schuman, he's an american composer. I only know the 'Circus Overture' because we played it in our wind band. The piece isn't that great.
@JcKaji2: The 'Ave Maria' is a text, not a composition. There are many composers who wrote music on that text, but there's no 'one-and-only' composition.

Gregorian chants are the only music from this time that I can hear without falling asleep.