We still are! This is just something I can't explain the feel of enough to people who haven't gone through the hardship. The first three months of studying chant and chant composers were fun, sure, but then once more religion spread and then I was memorizing pieces and names of chant composers for 2 years that covered over 50 countries, 50 methodologies, 5 religions, hundreds of composers, doing neumatic and neume analysis, and then the convoluted system, tuning systems, hundreds of foreign names and composers, 100's of interpretations, masses, mass orders, memorizing all the propers and ordinaries, over etc., it just becomes ingrained as hatred after all that time ;_;
Though newer chant-like the stuff now that's nothing like the old stuff (that people call chant nowadays is really just new-aged acapella music) is cooooooool though!
