“Where Every Stone Has Echoed with Song”
In Eyehasseen, music is not mere ornamentation—it is the heartbeat of the Kingdom, echoing across cloisters, down stone halls, and over the still waters of Lake Saint Aurelia. Ours is a land where Gregorian Chant drifts from abbey windows, where evening air is thick with plain song, and where even the wind seems to hum in modes.
St. Augustine has accurately written: “Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God’s generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.” Epis. 161. De origine animae hominis, 1, 2; PL XXXIII, 725.
As Pope St. Pius X properly observed:
These qualities are to be found, in the highest degree, in Gregorian Chant, which is, consequently the Chant proper to the Roman Church, the only chant she has inherited from the ancient fathers, which she has jealously guarded for centuries in her liturgical codices, which she directly proposes to the faithful as her own, which she prescribes exclusively for some parts of the liturgy, and which the most recent studies have so happily restored to their integrity and purity.
Motu Proprio “Tra le sollecitudini” (1903)
🏰 The Sound of the Realm
The official music of Eyehasseen is Schola, specifically Gregorian Chant, performed daily by the monastic communities. These sacred tones—ancient, unaccompanied, and resonant—form the spiritual atmosphere of both chapel and street. The monks offer free public concerts weekly in the town gazebo, where the cloaked brethren chant to gathered crowds in a setting of hushed awe and folding chairs.
🎼 Musical Traditions
Eyehasseen’s repertoire includes:
- Gregorian Chant (Schola Cantorum tradition)
- Plain Song & Conductus
- Madrigal & Motet ensembles
- Renaissance lute songs & consort music
- Medieval harp & viol pieces
- Roaming bards & minstrels (certified by the Bureau of Harmonious Deeds)
From sacred liturgies to secular feasts, the kingdom reveres music both as a sacrament and a celebration.
🎤 Venues of Note
- The Abbey of St. Brigid – Choral Vespers nightly
- Town Gazebo, Inverness – Monastic Chant Concerts, Thursdays at Dusk
- The King’s Cloister Hall – Seasonal Festivals of Sacred Polyphony
- Tallowmere’s Lute Loft – Informal madrigal gatherings
- The Whispering Forest – Unofficial bardic duels held under full moons
🧭 Music in Daily Life
You’ll hear chant from bell towers at sunrise. You’ll pass a baker humming the Gloria Patri. You may be served soup while a young chorister practices Kyrie Eleison behind the stall. No part of Eyehasseen is untouched by melody.
Of course, the SECOND greatest form of music can only be found in progressive rock. Some of the greatest bands, in a genre that runs from classic rock to folk to symphonic, includes, in no particular order:
- Crack the Sky
- Camel
- Genesis
- Gentle Giant
- Yes
- Caravan
- U.K.
- Big Big Train
- Flower Kings
- Rush
- Echolyn
- Jethro Tull
- Renaissance
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- King Crimson
- Pink Floyd
The Kingdom is not just famous for its music— it is built upon it.