[PDF] An Introduction To Gregorian Chant eBook

Author : Richard L. Crocker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300083101

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Richard L. Crocker offers in this book and its accompanying compact disc an introduction to the history and meaning of the Gregorian chant. He explains how Gregorian chant began, what functions and meanings it had over time, who heard it and where, and how it was composed, learned, written down and handed on. Crocker explains Gregorian chant and its functions within modern catholic liturgy as well as its position outside this liturgy, where the modern listener may hear it just as music. He describes the origins of the chant in the early Middle Ages, details its medieval development and use, and considers how it survived without, and later with, musical notation. The author probes the paradoxical position of the chant in monastic life -- serving as an expression of liturgical fellowship on the one hand and as the medium of solitary mystic ascent on the other. The book also includes a detailed commentary on each of twenty-six complete chants performed by the Orlando Consort and by the author on the accompanying compact disc. --From publisher's description.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521690355

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What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recognizable? Designed to guide students through this key topic, this book answers these questions and many more. David Hiley describes the church services in which chant is performed, takes the reader through the church year, explains what Latin texts were used, and, taking Worcester Cathedral as an example, describes the buildings in which it was sung. The history of chant is traced from its beginnings in the early centuries of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the revisions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth. Using numerous music examples, the book shows how chants are made and how they were notated. An indispensable guide for all those interested in the fascinating world of Gregorian chant.

Author : Daniel Saulnier
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Gregorian chants
ISBN : 9781557255549

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Dicover the riches of Gregorian chant.

Author : Pierre Combe
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : History
ISBN : 081321548X

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Gregorian chant, the Catholic Church's very own music, is proper to the Roman liturgy, but during the course of its long history it has experienced periods of ascendancy and decline. A century ago, Pope Pius X called for a restoration of the sacred melodies, and the result was the Vatican Edition. This book presents for the first time in English the fully documented history of the Gregorian chant restoration. The original French edition was published by the Abbey of Solesmes in 1969.This book describes in careful, vivid detail the strenuous efforts of personalities like Dom Joseph Pothier, Dom Andre Mocquereau, Fr. Angelo de Santi, and Peter Wagner to carry out the wishes of the pope. The attentive reader will not fail to note that many of the questions so fervidly debated long ago are still current and topical today. Robert A. Skeris' introduction to this edition illuminates the current discussion with documentation, including the Preface to the Vatican Gradual and the Last Will and Testament written by Dom Eugene Cardine.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198165729

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Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Author : Mary Antonine Goodchild
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1365341224

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by Sister Mary Antonine Goodchild, O.P. What a wonderful find this is: an ideal textbook on chant for junior high, high school, or really any age. It is mercifully free of verbiage or exaggerated detail. It is short and completely clear on all aspects of learning to chant (notes, rhythm, Latin, style), and it contains a vast amount of the basic repertoire, in neumes and with English translations. It even has study questions! Many of us have wished that such a book would be written. It took Fr. Samuel Weber to point out that such a book already exists, and now, praise be to God, it is in print again. As the title says, it is the perfect text for Church and school. It came out in 1944 but it isn't in the slightest bit dated. This is priced for mass distribution.

Author : Kenneth Levy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691017334

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In Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, Levy seeks to change long-held perceptions about certain crucial stages of the evolution and dissemination of the old corpus of plainchantmost notably the assumption that such a large and complex repertory could have become and remained fixed for over a century while still an oral tradition.

Author : Jacques Hourlier
Publisher : From Solesmes about the Chant
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781557250964

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A riveting work reflecting on the characteristics of Gregorian chant that have attracted the attention of so many: its permanence, beauty, and history, as well as its liturgical, sacred, and philosophical qualities.

Author : Peter Jeffery
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226395807

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Studying Gregorian chant presents many problems to the researcher because its most important stages of development were not recorded in writing. From the sixth to the tenth century, this form of music existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and voices to pass each verse from one generation to the next. Peter Jeffery offers an innovative new approach for understanding how these melodies were created, memorized, performed, and modified. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and ethnomusicology, he identifies characteristics of Gregorian chant that closely resemble other oral traditions in non-Western cultures and demonstrates ways music historians can take into account the social, cultural, and anthropological contexts of chant's development.