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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Gallican Rite
Of the origin of the Gallican Rite there are three principle theories, between two of which the controversy is not yet settled.
CXXXVIII), and by Neale and Forbes in "The Ancient Liturgy of the Gallican Church" (Burntisland, 1855-67).
No Gallican text of this litany exists, but it was probably much of the same type as that of the Stowe, which is called "Deprecatio Sancti Martini, and that which takes the place of the "Gloria in Excelsis" in Lent in the Ambrosian.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06357a.htm   (9084 words)

  
 Edward Foley, Capuchin: 2004 Liturgy Conference: Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
From a musical perspective, for example, despite Rome's repeated insistence on the primacy of Gregorian Chant and a particular style of 16th century polyphony, cultural forces were too strong to resist.
One major influence here, according to Hiley, was the increasingly common practice in the 17th and 18th centuries of accompanying chant which he believes was a powerful inducement "to recompose chants in a style easier to harmonize and more in the style of contemporary solo and concertante motets."
Aside from the various attempts to redefine chant according to particular cultural contexts, there was also growing cultural and stylistic diversity in the writing of Mass settings across Catholic Europe.
www.liturgy.nd.edu /conference/papers/foley2004.shtml   (7672 words)

  
 TermPapers-TermPapers.com - Classical Music
Chant, unaccompanied sung melody, the rhythms and melodic contours of which are closely tied to the spoken rhythms and inflections of the text.
Chant texts can be either sacred or secular, but the term usually refers to sacred liturgical music.
It is now called Gregorian chant after Pope Gregory I, known as the Great, who was active in collecting Roman chants, having them assigned specific places within the liturgy, and seeing that they were adopted by churches in other cities and countries.
termpapers-termpapers.com /dbs/d2/mxe60.shtml   (688 words)

  
 Canto Gregoriano: na Internet
Both Roman and Gallican (Frankish) chant are studied, as it was precisely in Metz that both traditions met under Pepin the Short, Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
The Stamford Schola Gregoriana is a non-profit organization which works to promote Gregorian chant and choral polyphony of the 16th Century, and is also the name of the schola of male singers which sings regularly at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, CT. Founded in 2001 by Scott Turkington.
The ISOK (Church music training institute) is run in a cooperative effort by the Dutch Reformed Church, the Reformed Church of the Netherlands, the Lutheran Church of the Kingdom of the Netheralnds and the Roman-Catholic Church Association.
www.schuyesmans.be /gregoriaans/PT/PTnet.htm   (3248 words)

  
 Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Plain-chant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Le chant grégorien est le plus connu et le plus diffusé des répertoires du plain-chant, à tel point qu'on finit par confondre les deux concepts.
Mais le plain-chant comprend également des répertoires autres que le rite grégorien : le chant ambrosien (ou milanais), le chant mozarabe (appelé également hispanique ou wisigothique), le chant gallican, sont les exemples les plus notoires.
Ce second type de plain-chant donnera naissance au genre du choral, en Allemagne.
www.encyclopedie.cc /Plain-chant   (245 words)

  
 Absolute Music II
Anglican chant was largely based on Catholic plainsong
Increased use of dynamic contrast within the phrase rather than between (more use of crescendo and decrescendo)
The slave trade in the mid-19th century introduced West African rhythms, work songs, chants and spirituals to America, which strongly influenced blues and jazz
www.touchet1611.org /AbsoluteMusicII.html   (2229 words)

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