The Kyrie is the first sung prayer of the Mass ordinary and is usually part of any musical setting of the Mass, one exception being the early English school, whose liturgy featured a troped Kyrie that was therefore proper to the day.

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2020年9月22日 · The Kyrie text is short, a mere six words: Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison. (Lord have mercy on us, Christ have mercy on us, Lord have mercy on us.) In this Gregorian chant version each pair of words is sung twice, solo followed by choir, just one of a number of traditional ways of performing this short text.

It seems inevitable to connect the Kyrie Eleison in the Roman Mass with an original litany. Its place corresponds exactly to where it occurs as part of a litany in the Syrian-Byzantine Liturgy; it is still always sung at the beginning of litanies in the Roman Rite too, and St. Gregory refers to “something’s usually said” in connection with it.

Kyries come from Greek traditions and are sung in Greek instead of Latin. In the mass, the Kyrie is sung after the chanting of the Introit. Traditionally, each line of the Kyrie is chanted three times to signify, through numerology, Catholics' belief in the threefold nature of the divine.

2016年5月16日 · The ninefold Kyrie normally has been sung by the schola cantorum, often in alternation between two choruses, from the eighth century up to the Second Vatican Council.

Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison.) and is sometimes sung or set alternatim, that is with one choir or the organ beginning and a second choir singing the even-numbered repetitions. The 1970 Novus Ordo reduces these to 6. A mediaeval practice was to insert tropes or extra text.

2025年3月7日 · Kyrie VIII with polyphony. Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to ...