There’s this chant that’s been stuck in my head that’s I’ve heard from a few movies but can’t remember what ones.

From my recollection it sounds something like this: “ o vee say something something o vee say “

I know that’s super vague but it’s been driving me crazy trying to find it

I have been listening to this for over 4-5 years and have yet to encounter another chant as thrilling as this one, someone have another favorite?

https://open.spotify.com/track/3DPvIw6xupTvdJ6bxXxYZV?si=_Zin31UBR0yMRIqbuZ-ufQ

During the Renaissance, I understand that Gregorian plainchant underwent a decline and was replaced with polyphonic choir singing for the preferred style of liturgical music, and that when Gregorian chant was sung, it was sung supposedly in a 'corrupted' way (not sure what these meant, but by the 19th c. it perhaps meant that it was sung operatically??) The monks of Solesmes Abbey in 1899 developed a reform of Gregorian chant which they believed revived the authentic medieval style, and this has since been the standard guideline for singing Gregorian chant for the past century. Stylistically, the Solesmes method is rather rigid, with all notes given equal (short) length and evenly spaced out; sequences such as gloria patri etc. also have the tendency to be sung fast.

However, at least one choir who posts on Youtube subscribes to the theory that Gregorian chant in the Middle Ages was actually supposed to be sung more fluidly, slowly and melismatically, with the singer able to improvise hold certain notes longer or collapse notes together, resulting in a style that probably sounds closer to Byzantine chant. Marcel Pérès' Ensemble Organum seems to also follow this line of thinking when performing non-Gregorian Latin Rite chant traditions (like Old Roman, Ambrosian or Mozarabic.)

To illustrate, here is the same chant sung first in the Solesmes method:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uxk-dBdAgE

And in this particular choir's (Ecole Grégorienne) 'fluid' style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY_mUWD3xsA

Here the cantor of Ecole Grégorienne does the same, singing the same chant first in the Solesmes method, then in the 'neumatic' method (which I think, was an earlier attempt at reconstructing a more authentic medieval style) and then finally in his 'folk' style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wZM8bGyWQQ

Personally, having read the works of art historians like Bissera Pentcheva on chant, liturgy and art in medieval churches, I lean towards this theory. Pentcheva's work in the beginning focused on the Byzantine East, with Hagia Sophia, but later expanded to apply the same theories to the Latin West in churches like Santa Maria Antiqua (specifically with the Easter Vigil Exsultet scroll) and the Abbey of Ste. Foy in Conques. The gist is that medieval church spaces created a multi-sensory divine experience combining sights and smells for worshippers: light from windows and candle-light reflected off shiny surfaces like gilding or mosaic tiles, or even the clergy's vestments, the smell of incense and the sound of chant reverberating throughout the building. By studying acoustics, when chanting it has been found that medieval churches in both the East and West are designed actually to muffle or obscure the sound of the chant; Pentcheva thinks that liturgical chants weren't necessarily meant to be understood clearly, but to come across as pure sound reflecting off surfaces like the church apse, with the intelligibility of the actual words confused. Medieval worshippers supposedly found that this sound was divine, and that the chants were "icons of sound".

Another reason possibly to lean towards the theory of 'fluid' performance of Gregorian chant which I can note is how, often I observe that Gregorian chants seem to be very short, so in modern churches when performed (especially the Offertory and Communio they often have to be supplemented with a second hymn or musical piece.) Perhaps they seem short because the chanters following the Solesmes method are singing it too fast, and are meant to slow down and draw out each of the notes.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9TGN5_GdRM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQtArnPwGg&t

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I obviously don't have the musical vocabulary to describe exactly what I'm asking for. I'm hoping someone can read my mind, and tell me what I'm looking for.

https://youtu.be/TBKY63zh4jY

https://youtu.be/N15RZxgIJY4