Chant And Its Origins

Author : ThomasForrest Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351572385

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Chant and its Origins by ThomasForrest Kelly Pdf

The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form. It is a body of thousands of individual pieces, of striking beauty and aesthetic appeal, which has the special quality of embodying, of giving voice to, the words of the liturgy itself. Plainchant is the music that underpins essentially all other music of the middle ages (and far beyond), and is the music that is most abundantly preserved. It is a subject that has engaged a great deal of research and debate in the last fifty years and the nature of the complex issues that have recently arisen in research on chant are explored here in an overview of current issues and problems.

Author : Richard L. Crocker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300083106

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An Introduction to Gregorian Chant by Richard L. Crocker Pdf

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 : Daniel Saulnier
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gregorian chants
ISBN : 1557255547

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Gregorian Chant by Daniel Saulnier Pdf

Dicover the riches of Gregorian chant.

Author : Svetlana Kujumdzieva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351581844

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The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion by Svetlana Kujumdzieva Pdf

The Tropologion is considered the earliest known extant chant book from the early Christian world which was in use until the twelfth century. The study of this book is still in its infancy. It has generally been believed that the book has survived in Georgian translation under the name ‘ladgari’ but similar books have been discovered in Greek, Syriac and Armenian. All the copies clearly show that the spread and the use of the book were much greater than we had previously assumed and the Georgian ladgari is only one of its many versions. The study of these issues unquestionably confirms the earliest stage of the compilation of the book, in Jerusalem or its environs, and shows its uninterrupted development from Jerusalem to the Stoudios monastery, the most important monastery of Constantinople. Over time many new pieces and new authors were added to the Tropologion. It is almost certain that it was the Stoudios school of poet-composers that divided the content of the Tropologion and compiled separate collections of books, each one containing a major liturgical cycle. In the beginning all of the volumes kept the old title but in the tenth century the copies of the book were renamed, probably according to the liturgical repertory included, and by the thirteenth century the title ‘Tropologion’ is no longer found in the Greek sources as it became superfluous, and fell out of use.

Author : Richard Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1087902029

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Parish Book of Chant by Richard Rice Pdf

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198165722

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Western Plainchant by David Hiley Pdf

Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Author : Willi Apel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1960-01-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253206014

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Gregorian Chant by Willi Apel Pdf

Willi Apel's classic study of Gregorian chant is now in paperback. This extensive survey describes the evolutionary processes of its long history as well as its definition and terminology, the structure of the liturgy, the texts, the notation, the rhythm, the tonality, and the methods and forms of psalmody.

Author : Katharine W. Le Mée
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015034230683

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Chant by Katharine W. Le Mée Pdf

Since the spring of 1994 there have been sales of almost two million copies of the Angel recording of Chant, sung by the Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain. People are drawn irresistibly to its peaceful sound, but very few of them know anything about the tradition or meaning of Gregorian Chant or understand the language in which it is sung. In this companion book, which includes the full text of the Chant CD with translations from the Latin, Katharine Le Mee traces the historical and liturgical sources of the chant and provides answers to everyone's questions about what Gregorian Chant is, how it is written and sung, the latest research on its therapeutic qualities, and the extraordinary effect its simple, pure, unaccompanied tones can have on the body, mind, and heart. At a time when we are all feeling so overworked and under pressure, the calm, measured, almost transcendent sound of the monks singing these ancient melodies seems to put us in touch with our true selves. It is as though, in listening to their song, we share in the monks' aspirations, devotion, and experience. The sudden popularity of this music today -- after 1,300 years -- is indicative of the deep spiritual hunger manifesting everywhere. Here is a book that explains how and in what ways Gregorian Chant can begin to nourish us and transform our lives.

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351555647

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Oral and Written Transmission in Chant by Thomas Forrest Kelly Pdf

The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville famously wrote that unless sounds are remembered by man, they perish, for they cannot be written down. This volume deals with the materials of chant from the point of view of transmission. The early history of chant is a history of orality, of transmission by mouth to ear, and yet we can study it only through the use of written documents. Scholars of medieval music have taken up the ideas and techniques of scholars of folklore, of oral transmission, of ethnomusicology; for the chant is, in fact, an ancient music transmitted for a time in oral culture; and we study a culture not our own, whose informants are not people but manuscripts. All depends, ironically, on deducing oral issues from written documents.

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521343100

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The Beneventan Chant by Thomas Forrest Kelly Pdf

Thomas Kelly's major study of the Beneventan chant reinstates one of the oldest surviving bodies of Western music: the Latin church music of southern Italy as it existed before the spread of Gregorian chant.

Author : James Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521898164

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Musical Notation in the West by James Grier Pdf

A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.

Author : John Rayburn
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Gregorian chants
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042673819

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Gregorian Chant by John Rayburn Pdf

Author : Katherine Bergeron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520919617

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Decadent Enchantments by Katherine Bergeron Pdf

The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the postrevolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of "restoration." Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. She discusses such issues as architectural restoration, the modern history of typography, the uncanny power of the photographic image, and the authority of recorded sound. She also shows the extent to which different media shaped the modern image of the ancient repertory, an image that gave rise to conflicting notions not only of musical performance but of the very idea of music history.

Author : Robert Challoner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082249040

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History of the Science and Art of Music by Robert Challoner Pdf

Author : Daniel J. DiCenso,Rebecca Maloy
Publisher : Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidi
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 190749734X

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Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome by Daniel J. DiCenso,Rebecca Maloy Pdf

Index of Chant Incipits -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index