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Chapter 8 Additions – Chant Development
Chant - types and regions
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Following the legalisation of Christianity in 313, different
forms and flavors of chant began to develop by region.
Roman Spain produced Mozarabic chant, whose title refers to the
Moorish rule over Spanish Christians after the invasion of 711
From Milan came Ambrosian chant, named in honour of St
Ambrose
More chant ‘centers’
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from Gaul, or what is now France, Gallican chant
from Rome, Old Roman and Gregorian
from England, the Sarum
from the Church in the East, Syrian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopian
and Armenian.
Toward a unified chant?
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Some of these chants were suppressed by Roman pontiffs striving
to establish a unified liturgy and music for the Church.
Others were abandoned when the region resolved to adopt what it
considered a superior chant or liturgy.
By these paths Gregorian chant came to dominate liturgical music
in the West by the 8th Century.
Pope Gregory
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The one fact almost invariably known about Gregorian chant is
that Pope Gregory had something to do with it.
a number of musical popes before him had contributed to the
development of chant in Rome, forming chant schools, founding
monasteries to preserve and maintain the chant or even
composing chant.
Silver Age of chant
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The period from 900 to 1300
most of the Ordinaries were composed in this period.
Creation of hymns and Propers still sung
additional music such as tropes, sequences (example: Dies
Irae) and conducti
On the end of the Silver Age
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Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium
hymn written by St.Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) for the Feast of Corpus
Christi (now called the Solemnity of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ).
also sung on Holy Thursday during the procession from the church to the
place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday.
translation: Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory, of His flesh the mystery sing.
Eucharistic hymn example
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Ave verum corpus
short Eucharistic hymn dating from the 14th century and attributed to Pope
Innocent VI (d. 1362)
During the Middle Ages it was sung at the elevation of the host during the
consecration.
The hymn's title means "Hail, true body", and is based on a poem deriving
from a 14th-century manuscript from the Abbey of Reichenau, Lake
Constance.