A companion to the PBS-TV special chronicles the rich history of Gregorian chant, combining full-color photographs, selected transcriptions, a CD featuring the Gregorian Chant Choir, and commentary from fans who reflect on why the music is important to them. Original. TV tie-in. 30,000 first printing. IP.
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One of the most surprising musical fads of recent years is the craze for Gregorian chant, a musical form whose recordings were once largely restricted to the pages of the Musical Heritage Society catalog and the output of obscure religious labels. Now chant in its various permutations is big business and something to be greatly hyped by mainstream record companies. Hopping onto the plainsong bandwagon is this book, a handsomely illustrated volume of essays and thoughts on assorted styles of chant, complete with a compact disc of examples tucked into a sleeve in the back. This book should satisfy any curiosity on the subject for most people who are neither monastic nor musicians.
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GREGORIAN CHANT IS one of several diverse forms of Christian liturgical chant practiced in the Mediterranean West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cathedral chant, monastic chant, musica mundana, polyphonic music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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GREGORIAN CHANT IS one of several diverse forms of Christian liturgical chant practiced in the Mediterranean West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cathedral chant, monastic chant, musica mundana, polyphonic music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fernandez de la Cuesta, Middle Ages, Dom Mocquereau, Carolinian Renaissance, Council of Trent, High Mass New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sound Mind, Sound Body: A New Model For Lifelong Health by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier on page 15, and page 27
- The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith in Back Matter
- Music for Our Time by Robert Winter in Back Matter
- The Early Medieval Sequence by Richard L. Crocker in Back Matter
- Missa Papae Marcelli by Arnold Schering on page 5
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- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism by Bob O'Gorman in Back Matter
- Leading the Churchs Song [With CD] (Leading Congregational Song) by Mark Paul Bangert in Back Matter
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