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Gregorian Chant and its Notations

Gregorian Chant and its Notations. – Locating the Chant – Reading the Chant – Transcripting the Chant. Locating the Chant. The Calendar Temporale Sanctorale The Liturgy Office Mass. The Calendar. The Temporale The Sanctorale. Divine Office Matins, about 3 a.m. Lauds, at daybreak

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Gregorian Chant and its Notations

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  1. Gregorian Chant and its Notations – Locating the Chant – Reading the Chant – Transcripting the Chant

  2. Locating the Chant • The Calendar • Temporale • Sanctorale • The Liturgy • Office • Mass

  3. The Calendar • The Temporale • The Sanctorale

  4. Divine Office Matins, about 3 a.m. Lauds, at daybreak Prime, at 6 a.m. Terce, at 9 a.m. Sext, at noon None, at 3 p.m. Vespers, at twilight Compline, before bedtime Ora et labora The sanctification of the time The Liturgy: The Office

  5. Ordinary chants(9th c.) 2. Kyrie 3. Gloria 9. Credo 3. Sanctus/Benedictus 6. Agnus Dei 9. Ite missa est/benedicamus Proper chants(7th-8th c.) 1. Introitus 6. Graduale 7. Alleluia 1. Offertorium 7. Communio The Liturgy: The Mass • Prayers and readings (4th c.) • I. liturgy of the Word • 4. Collect • 5. Epistle • 8. Gospel • II. liturgy of the Eucharist • 2. Preface • 4. Eucharistic prayer • 5. Pater noster • 8. Post-communion

  6. Ordinary chants Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus-Benedictus Agnus Dei Proper chants Introitus Graduale Alleluia Offertorium Communio The Liturgy: The Mass

  7. Reading the Chant • The Books • Graduale (Mass Chant) • Antiphonale (Office Chant) • Modern Tools • AMS • CAO • Modern Books

  8. The Mass Graduale Antiphonale Missarum Sextuplex René-Jean Hesbert's incipit edition of 6 early sources of mass chants (1935) Cantus-Planus (1990s) The Office Antiphonale Corpus Antiphonalium Officii Hesbert's full text edition of 12 early sources of office chants (1963-75) CANTUS (1980s–) CAO-ECE (1988–) The Books & Modern Tools

  9. Graduale Romanum (Solesmes 1908) Graduale Triplex (1979) Beiträge zur Gregorianik since 21 (1996) Antiphonale Monasticum (Solesmes 1934) Psalterium monasticum (1981) Liber hymnarius cum invitatoriis & aliquibus responsoriis (1982) Modern Books • Paléographie musicale (Solesmes 1889-) Facsimile series • Liber usualis (Solesmes1896-)

  10. St. Peter in Solesmes: A Benedictine abbey, it was the centre of the revival of Gregorian chant in the 19th and 20th centuries. A priory existed at Solesmes from 1010 to 1791; in 1833 Dom Prosper Gueranger (1805–75) revived Benedictine life there (cf. Peter Wagner, BGr)

  11. Private Collection (MS du Mont-Renaud). Gradual and antiphoner from northern France. Text probably written in mid-10th century, neumes added late 10th or early 11th century (PalMus 16 [1955]).

  12. Graduale Triplex(1979)

  13. Neumes Notation in campo aperto adiastematic non metrical Transcription St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 359. Cantatorium from St Gallen; dated very early 10th century (before 920). Neumatic notation with significative letters. Cantatorium contains only the soloists’ chants: graduals, alleluias and tracts (PalMus 2nd ser., 2 [1924]).

  14. The Notation adiastematic diastematic gothic roman/modernsince 13th C. The Words Carmina scripturarum (1907) On-line Bibles

  15. Excursus: Chant Repertories The legend of Pope Gregory the Great depicted in the Hartker Antiphoner St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 390–91 (“Hartker Antiphoner”). Antiphoner and tonary copied by Hartker, monk of St Gallen; dated 980–1011. Neumes with significative letters.

  16. Centres of Scholar cantorum and Scriptorium

  17. Western Chant Repertories Mozarabic(Old Spanish) Gallican Gregorian(Frankish-Roman) West-Frankish East-Frankish Old Roman(Urban-Roman) Ambrosian(Milanese) Beneventan Ravenna Aquileia Eastern Chant Repertories Byzantine Syrian Coptic(Ancient Egyptian) Georgian Armenian Ethiopian Russian/Slavonic

  18. Basic Literature • Crocker, Richard L. An Introduction to Gregorian Chant. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. • Crocker, Richard L., and David Hiley. The Early Middle Ages to 1300. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. • Harper, John. The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy from the 10th to the 18th Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. • Hiley, David. Western Plainchant : A Handbook. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. • Hughes, Andrew. Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office : A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. • Treitler, Leo. With Voice and Pen : Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003

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