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1. Gregorian Chant Web Guide
- www.msu.edu
- Gregorian Chant Web Guide.
- A page of chant links collected and annotated by Scott Robert Knitter. Use these links to explore chant sites and other comprehensive directories of chant pages on the Web. ...
- He studied chant with Dom Eugene Cardine in the 1980s and maintains web pages that cover chant, including an online newsletter dedicated to chant. ...
- The Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico, has some reflections on chant and some wonderful photos of the spectacular scenery surrounding this monastery. ...
- Compose your own chants, or just create crisp "manuscripts" of existing chants, with these Gregorian chant fonts from St Meinrad Archabbey. ...
- Here's another fantastic and comprehensive chant links page. ...
- The Abbey of St Peter at Solesmes, in France, a mecca (so to speak) of Gregorian chant scholarship, maintains an excellent overview of chant basics and, of course, great chant links. ...
- Affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music, this London organization's web site has a wealth of very informative chant links. ...
- Speaking of St Meinrad, don't miss this chant center's page of liturgical music, which uses principles of chant with modern liturgical texts to be sung congregationally. Parishes needn't choose between ornate chant singable only by a schola and no chant at all! .
- Henry Doktorski, faculty member of Duquesne University's City Music Center, writes insightfully about chant's healing effects and his personal experiences with chant, in an essay titled "Gregorian Chant: Archaic Relic or Relevant Revelation?" It's well worth a read. ...
- Western Plainchant: A Handbook, by David Hiley, is "the standard text-book on Gregorian chant," according to the Gregorian Association. As such, it replaces Willi Apel's Gregorian Chant, which ruled for years until Solesmes changed the way it teaches chant. ...
- For comprehensive chant links, try these two excellent chant portals: Richard Oliver's site is connected to that of the Order of St. ...
- The Cistercian monks of New Melleray Abbey in Iowa offer an online audio file of Compline to introduce listeners to the spirituality of monastic liturgical chant. ...
2. THE LITURGICAL CHANT ACCORDING TO THE CARPATHO-Rusyn TRADITION
- www.carpatho-rusyn.org
- THE LITURGICAL CHANT .
- Liturgical chant became an integral part of Christian worship since Apostolic times in agreement with the admonition of St. ... Chant, especially in the Byzantine Rite, became an expression of liturgical piety of the faithful, who used to come together in their churches not only for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, but also for their common prayers, offering to God their "sacrifice of praise" (Heb. ...
- Along with the Byzantine liturgy they also received a fascination for the liturgical chant. Of course, during the following centuries they applied their own musical genius and, eventually, they developed their own style of liturgical chant.
- Carpatho-Rusyn liturgical chant is executed in unison by the entire congregation (monodic chant). ... : proste --simple, plain; pinije-chant). in English Plain Chant, in opposition to the richly embellished polyphonic liturgical singing executed by choirs. ...
- Due to the lack of proper literary sources, it is almost impossible to trace the history of the development of the Carpatho-Rusyn plain chant-Prostopinije. ...
- The roots of the Carpatho-Rusyn Plain chant reach down to the Byzantine liturgical music arranged by St. ...
- These original elements must be discovered by the musicologists as they try to present to us the history of the liturgical chant. ...
- Contemporary scholars, studying the Carpatho- Rusyn liturgical chant, are able to trace its origin from Kiev to the Carpathian region. Thus, in the formation of the Carpatho-Rusyn liturgical music we can discover three distinct layers of composition that, in the course of centuries considerably modified the original Byzantine chant, namely: 1) Bulgarian-which developed along the lines of Cyrillo-Methodian tradition; 2) Old Kievan-as was cultivated in the famous eleventh century Monastery of Caves ("Kievo- Pecherska Lavra"); 3) proper Carpathian- through the influence of some popular melodies, characterized by the chromatic scale. ...
- As was mentioned before, Carpatho-Rusyn liturgical singing is monodic chant (Greek: monoidia-singing alone) executed in unison. ...
- The monastic schools of that period provided qualified candidates with only a practical training in the liturgical chant. ...
- In Subcarpathian Ruthenia liturgical chant started to be systematically cultivated only at the turn of the 18th century, when some educated cantors, who had received their musical formation in the famous monastic schools of Kiev, Pochajiv, or L'viv, arrived on the scene. They mastered not only the liturgical chant but also, to a certain extent, the theory of music. ...
3. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Gregorian Chant
- www.classical.net
- Gregorian Chant.
- Chant Collections.
- The Traditions of Gregorian Chant/Archiv 435032 Various Orders of Cloistered Monks and Abbots Signature: Sampler/Harmonia Mundi 290. 023 Marcel Peres/Ensemble Organum "Immortel Gregorien: A Voyage through the Gregorian Year"/Studio SM 122012 Various Monastic Choirs Gregorian Chant/Philips 411140-2 Wiener Hofburgkapelle Old Roman Liturgical Chants/Hungaroton HCD12741 Dobszay/Schola Hungarica "Les Tons de la Musique"/Harmonic 8827 Vellard/Ensemble Gilles Binchois Ave Maris Stella: Life of the Virgin Mary in Plainsong/Sony SK45861 Ruhland/Niederaltaicher Scholaren Gregorian & Ambrosian Chant for Epiphany/EMI CDC54543182 Schola Cantorum Coloneinsis Death & Resurrection/Archiv 427120-2 Joppich/Muensterschwarzach Chants of the Roman Church: Messe de St. Marcel/Harmonia Mundi HMU901382 Peres/Ensemble Organum Chants of the Roman Church: Byzantine Period/Harmonia Mundi HMU901218 Peres/Ensemble Organum "Adorate Deum": Gregorian Chant from the Proper of the Mass/Naxos 8. ...
4. Mystical-WWW : Gregorian Chant
- www.mystical-www.co.uk
- 'Gregorian Chant'.
- Taken from 'Gregorian Chant', a recording of 'The Monastic Choir of the Abbey of St. ... 'There is something about Gregorian Chant that appeals directly to the modern ear. ... 'Just as the solemn presence of old stone walls can convey an impression of enduring tradition so the time-denying sounds of Gregorian Chant can likewise bring a reassuring sensation that they have existed since mankind first gave voice. ... 'Gregorian Chant can be traced in documents as far back as the 11th-century and, on oral tradition, some 300 years earlier. An alternative name 'Old Roman Chant', is now seen to be misleading; the present version is a response by the Frankish church of around AD 800 to the introduction of elements originating in eastern Europe. ... 'There are three melodic styles of chant: 1) syllabic: each syllable of text is set is set to a single note; this is usually found in antiphons and psalms, 2) neumatic: from two to a dozen notes related to one syllable, as in introits, the Sanctus and Agnus Dei, 3) melismatic: one syllable sung to many notes as heard in graduals, alleluias and offertories. ... 'The greater part of what is known as Gregorian Chant has been in use since as least the 8th century, whereas the chants with standard texts such as the Kyrie (and 'Ordinaries') of the Mass were most likely developed during the 10th century and later. ... Gregorian Chant Homepage.
5. Byzantine Chant Studies Page
- chant.theologian.org
- Byzantine Chant.
- This page contains a few of my articles on Byzantine Chant, which I am working on to help beginners learn the Byzantine Chant system. ... If you really want to learn Byzantine Chant, the best way by far is to find someone who is proficient and apprentice yourself to him. ...
- I now have an Audio Page which contains audio files of Byzantine chant which I have recorded in English. ...
- The foundation of chanting well is to have good texts from which to chant. ...
- This article features some answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Byzantine Chant. ...
- His page is quite informative on some of the more technical issues regarding Byzantine chant. ...
- The EBYPES Project is devoted to digitizing psaltic notation for the purpose of making the publication of books of chant easier. ...
- This page is devoted to Znamenny Chant, an early Russian adaptation of the tonal system. ... This is the real Russian chant, dating from long before the corrupting influences of Peter the Great. ...
- Although its main emphasis is on the study of Gregorian chant in the West, this site also places that tradition within the context of early Christian liturgics in general, both East and West. ...
- This is very highly recommended reading for intermediate students of Byzantine chant. ...
6. Why is chant called Gregorian?
- www.medieval.org
- Why is chant called Gregorian?.
- That "Gregorian" chant was named for and credited to Pope Gregory I (r. ...
- In point of fact, the chant that was used in Gregory's time is now known as Old Roman, which barely survived into the era of musical notation, passing from one generation to the next by ear. ... Singing teachers were dispatched from Rome to teach the Franks by ear, but they did not get along well and the Franks made major changes in order to adapt the chant to their taste and their ways of singing.
- The chant of the Franks is the style that eventually propagated. As a result, what we call Gregorian chant should probably be called Carolingian chant, but the easy way out is simply to use the term plainchant and leave it at that.
7. Musical Forms - Plainchant
- w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de
- The official monophonic unison chant, originally unaccompanied, of the Christian liturgies. The term refers particularly to the chant repertories with Latin texts. ... and in a more restricted sense to the repertory of Gregorian chant, the official chant of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
- The origins of Christian liturgical chant lie in Jewish synagogue practice and in pagan music at early church centres (Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome and Constantinople). ...
- The forms or the chant repertory can be divided into psalmodic and non-psalmodic. ...
- There are three melodic styles of chant: syllabic, in which each syllable of text is set to a single note; neumatic, in which two to a dozen notes accompany a syllable; and melismatic, in which single syllables may be sung to dozens of notes. ... Each family of chant is characterized by a specific melodic type: antiphons and psalms are normally set syllabically, introits, Sanctus and Agnus Dei melodies are neumatic, and graduals, alleluias and offertories contain extensive melismas. ...
- Chant composition involves the contrived selection of traditional modal materials, which may be divided into cells, formulae and patterns. ...
8. Gregorian Chant Notation
- userpages.wittenberg.edu
- T his is a description of the traditional Gregorian Chant notation, so that anyone will be able to read the notation and sing it.
- Chant is written in neumes, which are notes sung on a single syllable.
- Gregorian Chant has no meter at all. ...
- 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.
- Chant notation is on the left.
- There is one accidental that may be used in Chant notation, it is the B-flat , which does look a lot like the modern B-flat.
- At the end of a line of chant, a little, skinny note (custos) is written to show what note is coming up next in the following line. ...
- And that is how to read Gregorian Chant notation! .
- Here are some examples of Chant written in neumes and written in modern notation, to compare them.
9. Stamford Schola Gregoriana
- www.stamfordschola.org
- The Stamford Schola Gregoriana is a non-profit 501(c)(3) 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. ... Founded in 2001 by Scott Turkington, the choir of men have recorded for the Abbey of Regina Laudis in tandem with the nuns of that abbey (see A Gregorian Chant Master Class) and have performed at various venues in Connecticut and New York. ...
- This year's project for the Stamford Schola Gregoriana is the Gregorian Chant Symposium commemorating the 1400th Anniversary of the death of Pope St. ...
10. THE GREGORIAN CHANT IN CD-ROM
- www.cantusgregorianus.com
- THE GREGORIAN CHANT IN CD-ROM.
- The Gregorian Chant and the Stroncone Choir Books. ...
11. IWMC: MA Chant & Ritual Song
- www.ul.ie
- MA Chant and Ritual Song .
- Chant and Ritual Song resources on the web.
- Chant and choral ensemble based here in the Irish World Music Centre.
- Benedictine monastery close to the University of Limerick where chant is sung as the primary music of the liturgy.
- uk/chant. ...
- Provides information about chant performance for the novice.
- The Gregorian Chant Home Page.
- A collection of useful links on every aspect of chant.
- Chant Links.
- CANTUS: A database for Gregorian Chant .
- The homepage of the chant study group of the International Musicological Society.
- For those interested in Byzantine Chant.
- An International Newsletter for Gregorian Chant .
- and other Repertoires of Western Chant .
- The homepage of the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes, famous for its revival of chant.
- The leading journal in English on Gregorian chant scholarship.
12. Premonstratensian Rite Chant
- www.premontre.org
- Norbertine Gregorian Chant.
- A reader should not be surprised to learn that the NorbertineOrder has its "own" Gregorian chant. ...
- At that moment, the number of monasteries in France, the Low Countries and Germany was already 41! A century later there were some 1,500 throughout Europe! Unity in matters of liturgy, rule of life, clothing, chant and obedience to the statutes was therefore really necessary to avoid splitting.
- Gregorian Chant was always called "The unsurpassable summit of unisonous music and an irreplaceable vivifying principle within the Western Christian liturgy. ...
- After twenty years of experiments and composition, it is somehow felt that Gregorian has nothing to do with monastic music belonging to the period of the triumphant church, nor with a chant that people don't understand nor feel drawn to. On the contrary: The renewed interest that comes up here and elsewhere indicates that we need to reevaluate Gregorian Chant as liturgical music and a precious culture-bearer. ...
- With the last issue in 1979 - known as the Graduale Triplex - the concern had really been to maintain the treasure of Gregorian chant in its original purity (Constitution of the Holy Liturgy, nr. ...
- , has made six CD Albums of Norbertine Chant, under the Eufoda label: .
- Eufoda 1308 (2001) Chant from the Liturgy for Corpus Christi .
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