Gregorian Chant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gregorian Chant write by Daniel Saulnier. This book was released on 2009. Gregorian Chant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dicover the riches of Gregorian chant.
Western Plainchant
Western Plainchant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Plainchant write by David Hiley. This book was released on 1995. Western Plainchant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Chant and its Origins
Chant and its Origins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chant and its Origins write by ThomasForrest Kelly. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Chant and its Origins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Gregorian Chant
Gregorian Chant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gregorian Chant write by David Hiley. This book was released on 2009-12-17. Gregorian Chant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion
The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion write by Svetlana Kujumdzieva. This book was released on 2017-11-08. The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
