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Chant Noël: Chants For The Holiday Season was released 1 November 1994, [7] with Chant II released 17 October 1995 [8] and Chant III on 17 September 1996. [9] In 1998, Chant was reissued as a gold-audiophile CD by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. In 2004, it was re-issued along with its follow-up, Chant II as Chant: The Anniversary Edition by Angel ...
The Church Music Association of America in different big projects, e.g. the "Simple English Propers", [2] the "Parish Book of Psalms", [3] the "Psalm-Tone Lenten Tracts" [16] Hymnarium OP, a Hymnary of the Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph (USA) [17] the Abbey of Solesmes for future publications [11]
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
A plagal mode (from Greek πλάγιος 'oblique, sideways, athwart') [7] [8] has a range that includes the octave from the fourth below the final to the fifth above. The plagal modes are the even-numbered modes 2, 4, 6 and 8, and each takes its name from the corresponding odd-numbered authentic mode with the addition of the prefix "hypo-": Hypodorian, Hypophrygian, Hypolydian, and ...
In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) can refer to either a repeated musical pitch or to the entire melodic formula for which that pitch is a structural note. In Gregorian chant, the first is also called tenor, dominant or tuba, while the second includes psalm tones (each with its own associated Gregorian mode) as well as ...
Gregorian chant setting for Kyrie XI notated in neumes.. The Kyriale is a collection of Gregorian chant settings for the Ordinary of the Mass.It contains eighteen Masses (each consisting of the Kyrie, Gloria [excluded from Masses intended for weekdays/ferias and Sundays in Advent and Lent], Sanctus, and Agnus Dei), six Credos, and several ad libitum chants.
A copy of the Liber Usualis. The Liber Usualis (Liber Usualis missæ et officii pro Dominicis et festis cum cantu Gregoriano or "Book for Use at Masses and Offices of Sundays and Feasts with their Gregorian Chants") is a liturgical book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France and first published in 1898.
The songs were compulsory as Gregorian chant for the Roman church and largely replaced local vocal styles. In the style of the Gregorian chant emerged many new compositions that were increasingly melismatic. Their texts came from the Ordinary and the Proprium Missae, from antiphons for the worship service, and pieces from the Liturgy of the Hours.