An introduction to Gregorian chant / Richard L. Crocker.

Author/creator Crocker, Richard L.
Format Musical Sound Recording
Publication InfoNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2000.
Description248 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
Gregorian chants--History and criticism.

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.
Contents Accompanying 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).
Abstract This book and its accompanying compact disc provide an introduction to the history and meaning of the Gregorian chant. The author explains how Gregorian chant began, what functions and meanings it had over time, who heard it and where, and how it was composed, learned, written down and handed on. The author explains Gregorian chant and its functions within modern catholic liturgy as well as its position outside this liturgy, where the modern listener may hear it just as music. He describes the origins of the chant in the early Middle Ages, details its medieval development and use, and considers how it survived without, and later with, musical notation. The author probes the paradoxical position of the chant in monastic life--serving as an expression of liturgical fellowship on the one hand and as the medium of solitary mystic ascent on the other. The book also includes a detailed commentary on each of twenty-six complete chants performed by the Orlando Consort and by the author on the accompanying compact disc.
Local noteJoyner-MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING CD-5596.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 228-229) and index.
LCCN 99088603
ISBN0300083106 (cloth : alk. paper)