Gregorian Chant

"Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during the ninth and tenth centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope St. Gregory the Great with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman chant and Gallican chant.

Gregorian chants are organized into eight scalar modes. Typical melodic features include characteristic incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related chants. Instead of octave scales, six-note patterns called hexachords underlie the modes. These patterns use elements of the modern diatonic scale as well as what would now be called B-flat. Gregorian melodies are transcribed using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern five-line staff developed during the sixteenth century.[1] Gregorian chant played a fundamental role in the development of polyphony.

Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches, or by women and men of religious orders in their chapels. It is the music of the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office. Gregorian chant supplanted or marginalized the other indigenous plainchant traditions of the Christian West to become the official music of the Catholic liturgy. Although Gregorian chant is no longer obligatory, the Catholic Church still officially considers it the music most suitable for worship.[2] During the twentieth century, Gregorian chant underwent a musicological and popular resurgence." --- Source: Wikipedia

That priceless 'CUP OF LOVE'

Every mornin we get up with many hopes in our mind... We would have targets to achieve,promises to fulfill, and many other things to do before we return to the bed at the end of the day...
We may get up at 6 in the mornin or as early as 3 but, did we ever think that there is someone who takes the trouble and get up before us and would make a nice hot cup of tea and bring it to our rooms or keep it on the table and say 'child, drink the tea before it gets cold '????
No matter how late we are,she wants us to take a moment to drink that cup of tea. She must be believing that 'this cup of tea will make my son / daughter stay fit , think wisely , do good things , etc...... ' Yes , it is the truth. That cup of tea would disappear the laziness in our bodies , make us stronger giving an undescribable power.. Indeed , it is not just an ordinary mix of tea and milk. It contains the affection of a mother , her love , her care for us and everything that a mom would give to her child and it also carry a message : ' my dear daughter / son , be a good child. I love you. '
And the taste of that cup of tea , no one else can make it to that taste other than our own moms and that taste would never change.
But, our moms doing all this , how many finds have we said ' thank you mama or mom , the tea was good , thanks !' but in case by any chance if she had forgot to add sugar we would definitely complain to her and make a big fuss.
She would know that she has done her job when we drink it and silently move on...........

Think a bit , the cup of tea we drink every morning , isn't it a priceless cup of love ???