Gregorian Music

Author : Richard L. Crocker
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083101
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Gregorian Chant written by Richard L. Crocker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard L. Crocker offers in this book and its accompanying compact disc an introduction to the history and meaning of the Gregorian chant. He explains how Gregorian chant began, what functions and meanings it had over time, who heard it and where, and how it was composed, learned, written down and handed on. Crocker explains Gregorian chant and its functions within modern catholic liturgy as well as its position outside this liturgy, where the modern listener may hear it just as music. He describes the origins of the chant in the early Middle Ages, details its medieval development and use, and considers how it survived without, and later with, musical notation. The author probes the paradoxical position of the chant in monastic life -- serving as an expression of liturgical fellowship on the one hand and as the medium of solitary mystic ascent on the other. The book also includes a detailed commentary on each of twenty-six complete chants performed by the Orlando Consort and by the author on the accompanying compact disc. --From publisher's description.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521690355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregorian Chant written by David Hiley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recognizable? Designed to guide students through this key topic, this book answers these questions and many more. David Hiley describes the church services in which chant is performed, takes the reader through the church year, explains what Latin texts were used, and, taking Worcester Cathedral as an example, describes the buildings in which it was sung. The history of chant is traced from its beginnings in the early centuries of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the revisions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth. Using numerous music examples, the book shows how chants are made and how they were notated. An indispensable guide for all those interested in the fascinating world of Gregorian chant.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316224376
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregorian Chant written by David Hiley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recognizable? Designed to guide students through this key topic, this book answers these questions and many more. David Hiley describes the church services in which chant is performed, takes the reader through the church year, explains what Latin texts were used, and, taking Worcester Cathedral as an example, describes the buildings in which it was sung. The history of chant is traced from its beginnings in the early centuries of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the revisions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth. Using numerous music examples, the book shows how chants are made and how they were notated. An indispensable guide for all those interested in the fascinating world of Gregorian chant.

Author : Daniel Saulnier
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781557255549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregorian Chant written by Daniel Saulnier and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dicover the riches of Gregorian chant.

Author : Pierre Combe
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 081321548X
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Restoration of Gregorian Chant written by Pierre Combe and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregorian chant, the Catholic Church's very own music, is proper to the Roman liturgy, but during the course of its long history it has experienced periods of ascendancy and decline. A century ago, Pope Pius X called for a restoration of the sacred melodies, and the result was the Vatican Edition. This book presents for the first time in English the fully documented history of the Gregorian chant restoration. The original French edition was published by the Abbey of Solesmes in 1969.This book describes in careful, vivid detail the strenuous efforts of personalities like Dom Joseph Pothier, Dom Andre Mocquereau, Fr. Angelo de Santi, and Peter Wagner to carry out the wishes of the pope. The attentive reader will not fail to note that many of the questions so fervidly debated long ago are still current and topical today. Robert A. Skeris' introduction to this edition illuminates the current discussion with documentation, including the Preface to the Vatican Gradual and the Last Will and Testament written by Dom Eugene Cardine.

Author : Andrew Wilson-Dickson
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9780800634742
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Christian Music written by Andrew Wilson-Dickson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has been at the heart of Christian worship since the beginning, and this lavishly illustrated and wonderfully written volume fully surveys the many centuries of creative Christian musical experimentation. From its roots in Jewish and Hellenistic music, through the rich tapestry of medieval chant to the full flowering of Christian music in the centuries after the Reformation and the many musical expressions of a now-global Christianity, Wilson-Dickson conveys 'a glimpse of the fecundity of imagination with which humanity has responded to the creator God.' Book jacket.

Author : Eugène Cardine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregorian Semiology written by Eugène Cardine and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Antonine Goodchild
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365341224
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregorian Chant for Church and School written by Mary Antonine Goodchild and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Sister Mary Antonine Goodchild, O.P. What a wonderful find this is: an ideal textbook on chant for junior high, high school, or really any age. It is mercifully free of verbiage or exaggerated detail. It is short and completely clear on all aspects of learning to chant (notes, rhythm, Latin, style), and it contains a vast amount of the basic repertoire, in neumes and with English translations. It even has study questions! Many of us have wished that such a book would be written. It took Fr. Samuel Weber to point out that such a book already exists, and now, praise be to God, it is in print again. As the title says, it is the perfect text for Church and school. It came out in 1944 but it isn't in the slightest bit dated. This is priced for mass distribution.

Author : Kenneth Levy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691017334
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians written by Kenneth Levy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, Levy seeks to change long-held perceptions about certain crucial stages of the evolution and dissemination of the old corpus of plainchantmost notably the assumption that such a large and complex repertory could have become and remained fixed for over a century while still an oral tradition.

Author : Daniel Saulnier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782852742208
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gregorian Modes written by Daniel Saulnier and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: