Gregorian chant

Indiana University Press

1958

xiv, 529 p.

Bibliogr.: p. xiii–xiv

Contents: pt. 1. The liturgy and its development. Definition and terminology ; The structure of the liturgy ; Origin and development to c. 600 ; The development after 600 ; pt. 2. General aspects of the chant. The texts ; The notation ; The tonality ; Methods and forms of psalmody ; Stylistic analysis. The liturgical recitative ; The free compositions : general aspects ; The free compositions according to types ; Ambrosian chant / Roy Jesson ; The old-Roman chant / Robert J. Snow

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