who is gregorian chant?

Question

who or what is tha?
full definition please

Answer 1

monophonic sacred song of the Roman Catholic church. music that's done into eight scalar modes rather then 6. mostly done in the western plainchant

Answer 2

its a form of song, mainly related to the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope Gregory the Great with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant.

Gregorian chants are organized into eight scalar modes. Typical melodic features include characteristic incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related chants. Instead of octave scales, six-note patterns called hexachords came to define the modes. These patterns use elements of the modern diatonic scale as well as what would now be called B flat. Gregorian melodies are transcribed using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern five-line staff developed during the 16th century.[1] Gregorian chant played a fundamental role in the development of polyphony.

Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches, or by women and men of religious orders in their chapels. It is the music of the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office. Gregorian chant supplanted or marginalized the other indigenous plainchant traditions of the Christian West to become the official music of the Roman Catholic liturgy. Although Gregorian chant is no longer obligatory, the Roman Catholic Church still officially considers it the music most suitable for worship.[2] During the 20th century, Gregorian chant underwent a musicological and popular resurgence.

Answer 3

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope Gregory the Great with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant.

Gregorian chants are organized into eight scalar modes. Typical melodic features include characteristic incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related chants. Instead of octave scales, six-note patterns called hexachords came to define the modes. These patterns use elements of the modern diatonic scale as well as what would now be called B flat. Gregorian melodies are transcribed using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern five-line staff developed during the 16th century.[1] Gregorian chant played a fundamental role in the development of polyphony.

Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches, or by women and men of religious orders in their chapels. It is the music of the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office. Gregorian chant supplanted or marginalized the other indigenous plainchant traditions of the Christian West to become the official music of the Roman Catholic liturgy. Although Gregorian chant is no longer obligatory, the Roman Catholic Church still officially considers it the music most suitable for worship.[2] During the 20th century, Gregorian chant underwent a musicological and popular resurgence.

Answer 4

Gregorian chant is a chant preformed by the Gregorian monks of Europe. The chants are religious hymns used in worship. They became very popular in the 90's

Answer 5

Pope Gregory the 6th wanted music organized in such a way that there was uniformity in the way the texts were sung. The ancient melodies, many of them Roman Legion Marching songs had been tamed by 5 centuries of liturgical use, but they still needed refinement.

Gregory had his clerical staff and musicians notate the sounds using "numes" an ancient type of musical note, so that the same type of sound could be produced by all who sang. This uniformity did much to concentrate the power of the papacy.

Luckily the musical notation system is readable by today's scholars so we have a pretty good idea of what music sounded like before and during the so called -dark ages.

Answer 6

Don't you mean Gregorian chant? Look it up in your text book (music appreciation). It should be under the category of sacred music. I mean this is the first form or the first voice of our music. Good enough, yes?

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant

Answer 8

"A" latin verse sung by Catholic monks.