Gregorian Association. Founded in 1870 to promote the study and practice of plainsong President: The Archbishop of Canterbury Director of Music: Peter Wilton Charity No. 1003775 Affiliated to The Royal School of Church Music Return to INDEX Updated 14/2/2008.
Gregorian Chant Benedictinos. Gregorian Chant Notation. What is Gregorian Chant - GIA Publications. Before reviewing the main Gregorian chant books and resources, perhaps it is good to state what Gregorian chant is.
Gregorian chant is the church’s own music, born in the church’s liturgy. Its texts are almost entirely scriptural, coming for the most part from the Psalter. Gregorian chant. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the western Roman Catholic Church.
Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope St. Gregory the Great with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman chant and Gallican chant.