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	Gregorian Schola
		Gregorian chant was for centuries the music of the Roman Catholic Church.
		While Christian chanting developed from Hebrew chants, Gregorian chant, as we know it today, is the most notable contribution of the Catholic church to the musical tradition of the west.
		On most chants the cantors (two or three singers) intone the chant, that is they sing the first several notes alone, so that by the time the rest of the choir joins in they have a sense of how the piece goes.
	comp.uark.edu /~rlee/chant.html (713 words)

	Gregorian Chant
		Gregorian Chant is alive and well and still enchanting singers and listeners alike, as it has done for the last 1500 years.
		Chant is based upon the songs sung in the synagogues and Middle Eastern countries.
		Gregorian Chant was adopted by the Christian Church in about the 6th Century and it quickly became an essential part of Christian worship.
	www.music-for-church-choirs.com /gregorian-chant.html (873 words)

	Churches in Lecce, Italy
		Rendered from the plainchant as monophonic and unaccompanied by instruments, the Gregorian chant was modified by the Franks in the 9th and 10th centuries.
		The chants were transcribed using neumes or the early form of notations from which the five-line staff was derived in the 16th century.
		As the years flowed by with the melody of the Gregorian chant echoing with the winds of change, the early Gregorian music of the 19th century cast its influence on the music of the 20th century.
	www.ultimateitaly.com /culture-antropology/gregorian-chant.html (1592 words)

	Gregorian chant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in the Catholic Church, mainly during the period 800-1000.
		Since Gregorian chant is remarkably uniform in geographically very distant regions, and this unification happened in a rather short time, most likely around 800, the bulk of evidence suggests that a major effort at making the repertory consistent happened at this time.
		In all likelihood, chant is at least as old as the breakup of the western Roman Empire in the 5th century, but mutated into different forms in different regions until brought together into one unified repertory under Charlemagne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregorian_chant (1706 words)

	Gregorian Chant - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Gregorian Chant, official liturgical chant used in the Roman Catholic church.
		It is called Gregorian chant after Pope Gregory I (Gregory I, Saint),...
		Chant, unaccompanied sung melody, the rhythms and melodic contours of which are closely tied to the spoken rhythms and inflections of the text....
	encarta.msn.com /Gregorian_Chant.html (112 words)

	MusicaSacra » Gregorian Chant as a Paradigm of Sacred Music
		It is sometimes said by well-meaning commentators that Gregorian chant is the ideal setting of its text; nothing could be farther from the mark, for each Gregorian genre shows a distinctly different manner of setting the text—each Gregorian chant is an ideal adaptation of its text to its specific liturgical purpose.
		The music of the chant extends the performance of the text substantially, and upon reflection, one must conclude that something more solemn and important is happening at this point in the liturgy than during the psalm antiphon.
		Indeed, the introit chant accompanies the entrance of the ministers into the church, their approach to the altar as the place of the Mass, the central liturgical act of the day, and the marking of the altar as a sacred place by incensing it.
	www.musicasacra.com /gregorian-chant-as-a-paradigm-of-sacred-music (3932 words)

	Characteristics of Gregorian Chant
		The Gregorian Chant will never be understood without the text which has priority on the melody and is the one that gives sense to this last.
		The Gregorian Chant is written on a stave of four lines, in contrast to the stave of the current music.
		As it was said previously, the Gregorian Chant was born to be interpreted inside the Liturgy of the Church.
	www.interletras.com /canticum/Eng/characteristic_ENG.html (974 words)

	Gregorian Association
		Those who wish to preserve the liturgical use of the chant, as well as many of those hostile to its liturgical use, are not necessarily impressed by its having recently gained a positive reception outside the church; in essence, such reception of the chant is seen as either sacrilegious or trivial.
		Gregorian Chant was essentially a variant of the Roman chant, a foreign import subjected to local variation.
		However, the performance of Anglican Chant continued to be influenced by the same rhythmic performance style until the twentieth century, when equalist rhythm was adopted in the wake of the influence of the monks of Solesmes.
	www.beaufort.demon.co.uk /chant.htm (4111 words)

	ABC Radio National: The Ark 27 June 2004 - Gregorian Chant
		Gregorian chant when the repertory began to be codified, consisted of chants in different genres, and for example, in the mass, there was the communion and there was the offertory and all of these were processional chants.
		One is a new approach to the interpretation of the rhythm of Gregorian Chant by a group of monks, once again at Solesmes, who have studies what they call semiology, so semiologie in French, and the leader of that group was Dom Cardine, and it involves slight modifications of the theories of Dom Cardine.
		Ruth Steiner is Distinguished Chant Specialist at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. She’ll be a speaker at a Gregorian Chant conference at the Australian Catholic University at Strathfield in Sydney, July 9th and 10th.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/ark/stories/s1136910.htm (1746 words)

	Gregorian Chant: A Barometer of Religious Fervor
		If the Chant is an external expression of the beauty and sanctity within the Catholic Church -- and thus part of the very life of the Church one is led to expect that the Chant has shared, in the main, the same fortunes as have been the lot of the Church through the ages.
		In fact, it does not seem too much to say that the status of the Gregorian Chant during the centuries may be considered a barometer indicating the state of religious fervor in the Catholic Church at the time.
		The Chant was borne by the missionaries to the newly converted lands, thus extending its domain until it permeated every phase of musical activity and reigned supreme, not only in the realm of sacred music, but, in fact, of all music.
	www.unavoce.org /chantbar.htm (2915 words)

	Gregorian Revival
		Gregorian chants, also known as plainsongs, are the equivalent of sung prayers.
		Gregorian chants typically are used in reflective masses, like Advent or Lent, but he says they also have a place beside contemporary music in regular mass.
		The Gregorian Association is associated with The Royal School of Church Music in England and lists a number of Gregorian chant resources.
	www.acfnewsource.org /religion/gregorian_revival.html (680 words)

	Gregorian Chant Notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chant is written in neumes, which are notes sung on a single syllable.
		Chant is not in a major key or a minor key, but in modes (though there are some modes which can sound like a modern scale).
		Chant is written on a 4-line staff, instead of 5 lines as music is written on now.
	userpages.wittenberg.edu /dkazez/Mus110/Gregorian-Chant (507 words)

	Gregorian Chant sung in Latin
		Gregorian Chant (hereafter referred to as 'chant') – amongst other forms of prayer – is ideally suited to this relationship, since the music is wedded to the text (having been composed for it).
		Chant is sung regularly in the liturgy by the choirs of Westminster Cathedral (daily), Brompton Oratory, London, and Boxgrove Priory; some Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals also sing the chant in Latin.
		Learning about Gregorian Chant: Gregorian chant, its history, musical forms (Paraclete Press, MA, 2001) is an audiobook (a audio CD recording with narration and musical examples) by the monks of Solesmes Abbey.
	theartofmusic.co.uk /portfolio/writing/gregChantLatin.php (1649 words)

	Alternative musical notations in Gregorian Chant
		In the sources in which Gregorian chant has been preserved, unintentionally a history of the conflict between letter and spirit can be red in an exemplary way.
		For the Carolingians who fixed Gregorian chant wanted to achieve by that fixation that Gregorian chant just not should get lost; on the contrary, they thereby wanted to achieve that it should continue to exist all over their empire in the same way, by which the unity in that empire should be promoted.
		In this period European national and local self-confidence are awaking and Gregorian chant is going hand in hand with the new liturgical, folkloristic and classical traditions, to succumb to it finally in spite of (or just thanks to?) the invention of the art of printing.
	www.gregoriana.nl /0203alternative.htm (886 words)

	Gregorian Chant
		Gregorian Chant is an organized collection music used in the worship services of the Roman Catholic Church.
		In fact, Gregorian Chant has been called the "sung Bible." The goal of the Gregorian melodies is to help bring out, not cover up the message of the words.
		illustrates the legend that Gregorian Chant was dictated to Gregory by the Holy Spirit, in the form of the dove on his shoulder.
	www.shoshone.k12.id.us /medieval/chant.htm (372 words)

	Chant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Christian liturgical chant obviously has a proud and specifically religious significance for an enormous audience worldwide, especially the more than 57 million Roman Catholics currently residing in the United States, many of whom still remember the use of Latin in their community churches as an ordinary part of the Mass.
		Gregorian Chant focuses on one of the most beautiful and universally appealing aspects of traditional Christian faith, an art form upon which all the later, more elaborate music of Western civilization was built.
		Gregorian Chant: Songs Of The Spirit allows viewers to escape, however briefly, the frenetic milieu of the 20th century and enter the contemplative serenity of cloistered medieval monasteries.
	whyy.org /CHANT.HTML (508 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Gregorian Chant
		Gregorian chant had been all but lost till it began to be revived as monks and other scholars made progress in deciphering the neumes”; by which early chants were notated musically.
		The restoration of Gregorian is mainly due to the monks of the French Abbey of Solemes in the second half of the last century.
		Chant is today enjoying a tremendous surge in popularity and there are many websites which are devoted to this wonderfully ethereal music.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /music/articles/2000_12_gregorian.html (307 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gregorian Chant
		chants, which were akin to it, but were gradually supplanted by it from the eighth to the eleventh century.
		chant sung in Italy and Gaul at the
		chants are taken from the "Itala" version, while as early as the first half of the seventh century St.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06779a.htm (771 words)

	History of Gregorian Chant
		The first complete chant book published after the reforms of Trent presented chant in proportional notation: the ordinary square note was allotted a value of one beat, diamond-shaped notes were presented as half beats and a pause sign over a square note meant the note had two beats.
		Counterpointed chant was a sort of improvised polyphony, in which the standard chant melodies served as a stem around which singers wove impromptu lines of counterpoint.
		Chant also continued to be used for a time by the Lutherans in 16th century Germany, although (like all the post-Trent forms of chant) it was made metrical, like a hymn, to facilitate congregational singing.
	www.maternalheart.org /library/chant_history.htm (4175 words)

	Ratio Studiorum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gregorian chant is one of the many traditions of liturgical song that developed in the Christian church during the medieval period, and undoubtedly the most renowned (though few people really know it well) of the chant traditions that are still in use today.
		In the nineteenth century, when the beginning of modern chant scholarship provoked the first great attempt to locate and survey the surviving manuscripts, researchers discovered a local tradition in Rome that was textually similar to Gregorian chant, but melodically quite different.
		The need to develop a uniform chant tradition that could be easily and accurately taught provoked many new developments, including the creation of a system of notation for writing the melodies down, and a literature of music theory for explaining it.
	www.music.princeton.edu /chant_html/what.html (2416 words)

	CNP Articles - Gregorian Chant: Back to Basics in the Roman Rite
		Gregorian chant is unfamiliar to many people and should be listened to carefully.
		In chant, the solemnity of the text is raised to an exalted level by being cantillated, or intoned, to a musical line.
		Gregorian chant, sacred polyphony, and the use of Latin in the Mass are frequently viewed as being incongruous with the liturgy, and are sometimes greeted with antipathy and even outright hostility at their mere suggestion.
	www.canticanova.com /articles/misc/art7ab1.htm (1401 words)

	Chant
		Christian liturgical chant obviously has a proud and specifically religious significance for an enormous audience worldwide, especially the more than 57 million Roman Catholics currently residing in the United States, many of whom still remember the use of Latin in their community churches as an ordinary part of the Mass.
		Gregorian Chant focuses on one of the most beautiful and universally appealing aspects of traditional Christian faith, an art form upon which all the later, more elaborate music of Western civilization was built.
		Gregorian Chant: Songs Of The Spirit allows viewers to escape, however briefly, the frenetic milieu of the 20th century and enter the contemplative serenity of cloistered medieval monasteries.
	www.whyy.org /CHANT.HTML (508 words)

	liturgical music, liturgical books -- Liturgica.com Gregorian Recommendations
		Jerome, a member of the Liturgica Advisory Board, is widely recognized as an expert on Gregorian chant.
		Learning About Gregorian Chant is a recent release from the Monks of Solesmes on Paraclete, and explains the history and development of Gregorian chant, as well as offering many examples.
		The Chants of Easter Gloria Dei Cantores Schola sings all of the Chants of Easter in a beautiful rendition of all the Proper chants of the Masses for Easter and the days of Easter week.
	www.liturgica.com /cart/recommend_gregorian.jsp?hostname=null (651 words)

	What you really must know about Gregorian Chant
		Whilst this first codification of the chant seems a harmless enough exercise, and really a by-product of missionary efforts, it did have the unfortunate effect of causing older versions of chants, and even some whole families of chants, to disappear before they had been written down.
		Chant retained a small dedicated following in the academic world keen to study it as a means of understanding the development of Western music.
		The current explosion of interest in the chant was heralded in the late 1980s by the inclusion in several pop songs of material sampled from Chant recordings.
	www.adoremus.org /0604Chant.html (2219 words)

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