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Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles,…
The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in this engaging and literate study. The author traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at So…