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Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope Gregory I with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of the Old Roman chant and Gallican chant. [1]
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
The name of Pope Gregory I was attached to the variety of chant that was to become the dominant variety in medieval western and central Europe (the diocese of Milan was the sole significant exception) by the Frankish cantors reworking Roman ecclesiastical song during the Carolingian period. [1]
Indeed, in respect of the chant of the Church, it is very probable that the great pope took no immediate interest in this part of divine worship; much less do the antiphonary and the sacramentary which bear his name agree in any way with the ecclesiastical calendar of St. Gregory's time; if they are at all rightly called Gregorian, it must be ...
The Gregorian telescope, named after James Gregory; Gregorian (band), German band that performs Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern pop and rock songs; Gregorian Antiphonary, an early Christian antiphonary, i.e. book of choral music to be sung antiphonally in services; it is associated traditionally with Pope Gregory I; Gregorian ...
Gregory has been the name of sixteen Roman Catholic Popes and two Antipopes: . Pope Gregory I ("the Great"; 590–604), after whom the Gregorian chant is named; Pope Gregory II (715–731)
Gregorian chant is a variety of plainsong named after Pope Gregory I (6th century A.D.), but Gregory did not invent the chant. The tradition linking Gregory I to the development of the chant seems to rest on a possibly mistaken identification of a certain "Gregorius", probably Pope Gregory II, with his more famous predecessor. The term ...
The liturgical Gregorian chant is found in the Tenor part, as is usual. The Bournonville polyphony is designed to alternate with a choir singing the liturgical plainchant. Guillaume Bouzignac , chapel master of the cathedrals of Angoulême, Bourges, Rodez, Clermont-Ferrand and the Collegiate church of Saint-André in Grenoble, also composed ...