Gregorian Chant
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Title of the Text: Gregorian ChantAuthors: The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica
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What
is Gregorian Chant? Gregorian Chant is a liturgical music used in the Roman
Catholic Church. It is named after St. Gregory I.
It
was classified by 6 chant with different form that appeared in different
centuries. The chant of Kyrie, Gloria,Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus
Dei.
A
Gregorian Chant is composed to bring out the significance of each feast or
season it is consisted of psalm and refrain. It is divided by two style
Neumatic style and Psalm tone style.
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"Gregorian
chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church,
used to accompany the text of the mass and the canonical hours, or divine
office. Gregorian chant is named after St. Gregory I, during whose papacy (590–604)
it was collected and codified. Charlemagne, king of the Franks (768–814),
imposed Gregorian chant on his kingdom, where another liturgical tradition—the
Gallican chant—was in common use. During the 8th and 9th centuries, a process
of assimilation took place between Gallican and Gregorian chants; and it is the
chant in this evolved form that has come down to the present.”
"The
Proper of the mass is composed of texts that vary for each mass in order to
bring out the significance of each feast or season. The Introit is a
processional chant that was originally a psalm with a refrain sung between
verses. By the 9th century it had received its present form: refrain in a
neumatic style—a psalm verse in psalm-tone style—refrain repeated. The Gradual,
introduced in the 4th century, also developed from a refrain between psalm
verses. Later it became: opening melody (chorus)—psalm verse or verses in a
virtuosically embellished psalmodic structure (soloist)—opening melody
(chorus), repeated in whole or in part. The Alleluia is of 4th-century Eastern
origin. Its structure is somewhat like that of the Gradual. The Tract replaces
the Alleluia in penitential times. This chant is a descendant of synagogue
music. The offertory originally consisted of psalm and refrain, but by the 12th
century only the refrain remain"
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