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Genre/Form: | Compact discs Sound recordings Gregorian chants Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Music |
Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard L Crocker |
ISBN: | 0300083106 9780300083101 |
OCLC Number: | 42980246 |
Performer(s): | Tracks 1 and 26: Orlando Consort. Remaining tracks: Richard L. Crocker ; with (tracks 2, 5, 22-25) Marika Kuzma. |
Description: | 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
Contents: | Chant, chanting and Gregorian chant -- Tone and tonal space for Gregorian chant -- Melodic movement, rhythm and words -- Gregorian chant, Roman politics and European polyphony -- Singing the praises in early Christian worship -- Gregorian chant in the Roman rite -- Monastic chant in time and eternity -- Gregorian chant in notation and in the mind. CD contents. Haec dies (Gradual) -- Puer natus (Introit antiphon) -- Viderunt omnes (Gradual) -- Alleluia Dies sanctificatus -- Tui sunt caeli (Offertory): Magnus et metuendus ; Tu humiliasti -- Viderung omnes (Communion antiphon) -- Laetatus sum (Gradual) -- Adiutor in opportunitatibus (Gradual) -- Custodi me (Gradual) -- Alleluia Dominus dixit -- Alleluiz excita Domine -- Super flumina (Offertory) -- Exaltabo te (Offertory) -- Psallite Domino (Communion antiphon) -- Qui meditabitur (Communion antiphon) -- Kyrie eleison -- Gloria in excelsis Deo -- Sanctus -- Agnus Dei -- Psalm 2: Quare fremeurunt gentes ; with Dominus dixit (antiphon) -- O Magnum mysterium (responsory) -- Parvulus filius (antiphon) ; Psalm 250: Laudate Dominum -- Multifarium (chapter) ; Verbum caro (responsory) -- A solis ortus cardine (Office hymn) -- Gloria in excelsis (antiphon ; Canticle: Benedictus -- Salve Regina (Antiphon). |
Responsibility: | Richard L. Crocker. |
Abstract:
An introduction to the history and meaning of Gregorian chant. The author explains its origins, its functions and meanings over time, who heard it and where, and how it was composed, learned, written down and handed on. Also included is a detailed commentary on the 26 chants on the accompanying CD.
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