Gregorian Chant is still the own liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church. We gathered here the information about the places in the internet where you can find the valuable information about the history and performing this kind of plainchant.
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Kyriale
Square notes, Latin text and English translation
PDF files with square notes for downloading and printing
MP3 audio files - listen and learn to sing gregorian chant!
Psalterium
- Octo toni psalmorum - Eight psalm tones. Square notes and examples of real psalms in MP3. The best way to learn to sing psalms!
- Psalterium - The latin text of psalms according to the pre conciliar Divine Office, with English translation. All the psalms are reviewed and ready for singing (the verses contain "+" and "*" marks)
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Propers of the mass
Here you will find the square notes and Latin text with English translation of the Sunday propers of the Mass (introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory and communion).
Catalogue of internet chant resources
The Gregorian Chant Home Page
This web directory contain links to numerous gregorian chant resources over the whole World Wide Web. You will find there links to gregorian chant research sites, mediaeval music theory sites and resources for chant performance.
Gregorian chants, with audio files
The site with many kyries, some selected chants and chants of the proper of Masses in advance for rehearsals.
Gregorian Chant in Catholic Encyclopedia
Article containing the brief description of the gregorian chant and its history. You will appreciate the reach bibliography (mainly in French)
Gregorian chant in Wikipedia
Very detailed information on gregorian chant. The rich information about the origin of the chant and early sources, musical form of the chant (melodic types, modality, notation), performance of the gregorian chants (texture and rhytm), liturgical function of the chant (liturgy of hours, holy mass) and the influence of the gregorian chant on the other kinds of music. Reach references and external links.
Gregorian Schola
The Gregorian Schola of St. Joseph Parish was founded by Br. Christian Guertin, FFSC in 1993 as both a performing group and a study group dedicated to the cultivation, study, and promotion of Gregorian chant as a musical art. Performances are frequently, but not exclusively, in the context of a Catholic mass.
The Gregorian Association
The Gregorian Association was founded in 1870 (as The London Gregorian Choral Association) to promote the singing of Gregorian Chant to English texts, and to overcome the prejudice which existed against doing so. This purpose is still part of the work of the Association, but more recently its policy has increased in scope, so that the it is now fully oecumenical, and promotes and uses the chant in Latin as well as Modern English and that of the Book of Common Prayer. The Association is now 130 years old; during this time it has sung and taught the chant as a living witness to the enduring value and beauty of the "true music of the church". Directors of Music have included Sir John Stainer, Francis Burgess, Arthur Clarke and Professor David Hiley.
Gregorian Chant Notation
A description of the traditional Gregorian Chant notation, so that anyone will be able to read the notation and sing it.
Why is chant called Gregorian?
That "Gregorian" chant was named for and credited to Pope Gregory I (r. 590-604) is an accident of politics and spin doctoring. Tension between the Pope (the Bishop of Rome) and other Bishops regarding the authority of the Pope as "first among equals" was matched by tension between the Pope, as spiritual ruler of Rome, and Rome's secular rulers. This tension was an off and on thing until as late as the 15th century, when the "Conciliar Conflict" (c. 1409-1460) pitted the power of the Council of Bishops against the power of the Pope and Cardinals.
Cantus Planus Archive
Archive of downloadable chant resources, including a bibliography, the Chartres missal and the Moosburg gradual.
Dominican Central
Resource pertaining to the American Central Province of the Dominican Friars, concerned with the Roman Catholic faith. Includes information on sermons, preaching, theology and study, with access to a sound collection of Gregorian chants in Real Audio format.
Dan's Gregorian Chant Tutorial
The webpage containing all the information necessary for reading the gregorian chant notation, singing the chant and using it in the liturgy.
Gregorian Chant Select Bibliography and Websites
Benedictine website dedicated to the memory of + Fr. Gerard Farrell OSB, 1919-2000, who inspired the creation of this resource on his return to Collegeville conducting a summer chant course in 1996.
Gregorian Chant Font
To edit the gregorian neums on the computer it is necessary to posess the special font. The website contains information how to get it.
Chant institute
Fr. Heiman did his D.S.Mus. at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. He studied Chironomy under Dom Raffaele Baratta, O.S.B., and Paleography under Dom Eugene Cardine, O.S.B., renowned authority on Gregorian Paleography. Fr. Heiman has conducted scholas and workshops on Gregorian Chant. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Music at Saint Joseph's College. He is the founder of, and for 36 years the director of the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy.
The CANTUS project
At the University of Western Ontario, features a database of indices of the Gregorian chant texts in selected manuscript and early printed sources of the daily Divine Office
L'ABBAYE SAINT-PIERRE DE SOLESMES
The French monastery that led the modern revival of Gregorian chant, lists its publications and recordings.
Schola Gregoriana Silesiensis
Schola Gregoriana Silesiensis was invented by Jan Andrzej Dabrowski in January 2000. Since September 2000 till July 2002 it acted as a part of Culture & Art Centre (OkiS) in Wroclaw. In April 2002 the members of Schola founded "The Association Schola Gregoriana Silesiensis". The programme of Schola contains concert and liturgical activity relevant to discovering the oldest sources of sacred music, particularly from the Lower Silesia region.
Gregorian Chant MP3s
The website containing the downloadable MP3 files with the great gregorian chant recordings.
Chant CD
The online shop where you can purchase CDs with gregorian chants, books and other resources as well.
Chant MIDI files
MIDI files of (mostly) Gregorian Chants created by Richard Lee. Obviously there are taken some interpretive freedoms. For one thing, the computer won't be singing the words--and chant without words sort of misses the point. It may sound pretty bad, but then Gregorian chant was never meant to be hummed by a computer. Nevertheless, some people might find this useful, if perhaps they are trying to read square note neumes.
GREGORIAN CHANT & POLYPHONY
Several useful links concerning gregorian chant and sacred poliphony at Una Voce webpage.
Gregorian Chant - Canticum Novum website
Coral Group established in Bogota city, Colombia since 1984. It is integrated by professionals of the most diverse disciplines, to whom it has joined the admiration for the Gregorian Chant and his desire to study it deeply and to promote it. Their website contains also the information about the theory and technic of gregorian chant and several useful links.
Gregorian Chant Resources
Here, you will find the world's finest Gregorian chant resources available today, including recordings and books. All of these resources are distributed by Paraclete Press, the publishing arm of the Community of Jesus, an ecumenical monastic community in the Benedictine tradition. Please click on any of the links on this page to learn more about our offerings, or to make a purchase.
The Liturgical Year in Gregorian Chant
A Manual of Gregorian Chant, for your schola! Magnificat is a Hymnal of Gregorian Chant destined for the faithful and educational institutions. This Hymnal contains all the chants used during the traditional liturgical offices, from the simple Sung Mass to the Compline of each day of the week, with the Vespers of the Sunday and Feast Days, as well as the processions and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. One will find therein not only Gregorian Chant but also French liturgical music and even some simple polyphony for parish choirs.
What you really must know about Gregorian Chant
"The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman Liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services". - Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium §116 (1963) Forty years after these words were written, few Catholics had ever heard a Gregorian chant at Mass in their parish Church, and even fewer had participated in chanting the Mass. Yet the active participation of the people in this form of worship was, obviously, the vision of the fathers of the Second Vatican Council. Alas, all things were not equal, in the turbulent years of change and innovation following the Council. Not only was Gregorian chant not accorded "pride of place"; like a rainforest, it was nearly destroyed by decades of reckless liturgical bulldozing. But Catholics alive today may yet see the Council's intended revival of what Pope Saint Pius X called "the chant proper to the Roman Church, the only chant she has inherited from ancient fathers, which she has jealously guarded for centuries in her liturgical codices, which she directly proposes to the faithful as her own..." (Tra le sollecitudini §3) To encourage such efforts to revivify our Catholic heritage, we asked to reprint the opening chapter of the book, and are pleased present it herewith, with the kind permission of Saint Michael's Abbey.
Gregorian Chant in 'Music for Church Choirs'
Gregorian Chant is alive and well and still enchanting singers and listeners alike, as it has done for the last 1500 years. Singing plainchant is the best way to rescue it from the oblivion of history books and to understand much of the music of our civilisation. What is it about plainchant that speaks to you? Do you think you could even learn to sing it? Let's start at the beginning ...
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