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Yes, very!! I spent three of my seminary years singing in a chant choir that practiced Gregorian chants multiple times a week throughout the school year and sang them in chapel at least once a week. During my last year at the Seminary I took a semester class in Gregorian chant (Solesmes style), learning Chironomy (conducting chant). I was first exposed to it in a Music Methods class in my third and fourth years of college (strong minor in music) before entering the Seminary. It is such a marvel with overlapping arcs of arsis and thesis of neumes, phrases, lines, stanzas and the entire chant and the stress between the natural emphases of the words contrasted with steady pulse of the chants. Our conductor was obsessive about honoring each element. The fifteen or so of us had to match our voices perfectly so that we sounded like one voice. We worked very hard.

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