Hello, and welcome to our FINAL BACKGROUND EPISODE! Now brace yourself for a veritable tidal wave of musical knowledge as we trace the origins and development of Christian chant through the better part of the 1st millennium CE. This episode is absolutely jam packed with hard-to-find information and positively GORGEOUS music from half a dozen early chant traditions. Along the way, we will encounter young lectors who competed against pagan singers, alongside incredible early music theorists (Thanks Alypios!) and a veritable who's who of early medieval bigwigs, and a shady antiquities dealer known only as "Two Time Slim." ========================= LINKS "Two Time Slim" by Patch & The Toonsnangs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Z_bYPT7F8 Oxyrhynchus Hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDUAVMjmktc Phos Hilaron In Greek (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJcBgcHkdac&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=45 Phos Hilaron in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=618jSKxAdzg&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=46 Byzantine Hymn - Δεύτε λαοί https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q8i0CYs-CM Ambrosian chant - Ecce apertum est Templum tabernaculi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrUxaISuk50&list=PLoth48xsiR7_3ti-wboND6p7z491G5CoA Chant des Gaules - Alleluia Music of the Ancient World - Early Music - From Ancient Times To The Renaissance Album Link https://youtu.be/YPT1lsUsmxk?list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&t=3422 Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius | Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy https://boethius.mus.cam.ac.uk/reconstructing-songs-boethius Ensemble Sequentia Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tALWHHUaE&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=47 Office des lectures: Officium "Alleluia, ortus conclusus" (Mozarabic Alleluia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Khr76M5j0w&list=OLAK5uy_kZdH4-DvH173dr3QjJjWBD3-AgkXJLEjQ&index=2 Hymnus Peregrinorum: Compostela, Dum Pater Familias (Lyric Video) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE96AgZZn90