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Anglican church music is music that is written for Christian worship in Anglican religious services, forming part of the liturgy.It mostly consists of pieces written to be sung by a church choir, which may sing a cappella or accompanied by an organ.
Anglican chant was formerly in widespread use in Anglican and Episcopal churches, but today, Anglican chant is sung primarily in Anglican cathedrals and parish churches that have retained a choral liturgical tradition. Additionally, Anglican chant may be sung in Roman Catholic, [4] [5] Lutheran, [1] [6] [7] Presbyterian, [8] [9] and Reformed ...
An Exultet roll is a long and wide illuminated scroll containing the text and music of the Exultet, the liturgical chant for the Paschal vigil. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The material was usually parchment , the layout that of a rotulus (text parallel to the rod), the text in Beneventan script and the music notated in neumes .
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.
Armenian chant – chants used in the liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Ars antiqua – European music from the Late Middle Ages, which advanced concepts of rhythm. Ars nova – a style of French music from the Late Middle Ages, rejected fiercely by the Catholic Church. Ars subtilior – a style of French music from the Late Middle Ages.
The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society was founded in 1888 to promote the performance and study of liturgical chant and medieval polyphony. [ 2 ] Interest in plainsong picked up in 1950s Britain, particularly in the left-wing religious and musical groups associated with Gustav Holst and the writer George B. Chambers .
Ambrosian chant is distinct from Gregorian chant. Some senior priests (notably provosts and certain canons ) are entitled to wear vestments commonly associated with bishops, including the mitre . The liturgical burning of the faro (a large cotton sphere suspended in the air, inside the church) on feasts of martyrs .
The Galician chant (Ukrainian: галицький розспів), is a form of liturgical chant originating in Western Ukraine, used predominantly by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, and to a lesser degree the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.