![]() ![]() Gregory was a church administrator, a writer of sermons, and an important theologian, but it’s only an historical accident that he is associated with this vast repertoire of chant. From this, it is obvious then, that although it takes its name from Pope Gregory the First - and you have his dates on the board over there, Gregory the Great - Gregorian chant had almost nothing to do with Gregory. What we call Gregorian chant really went on for a period of fifteen-hundred years. So the composition of chant, then, began all the way back slightly - shortly after the death of Christ and continued into the sixteenth century. What music was sung henceforth would be dictated by Rome. Snappy rhythms in church music were proscribed. Any sort of secular tombs were taken out of the church. No more nudity was allowed in art and any nudity that was already there in religious art was painted over. Among the things that got purified were the art and the music. ![]() ![]() The Council of Trent, as you may know from your history courses, was a conclave held in the northern Italian town of Trento, Italy, from 1545 to 1563 at which time they tried to combat the effects of the Protestant Reformation, instituting reforms within the church, purifying the existing church of Rome - cleaning up the Catholic Church in effect. What is Gregorian chant? Gregorian chant is the monophonic, one-line music - monophonic, one-line music of the Roman Catholic Church as it existed from the time of the earliest church fathers up until the time of the Council of Trent. So with that understood, let’s begin with an introduction to medieval music starting with Gregorian chant. This ain’t religion in this course this is art. We will not be promoting in here the values of the Roman Catholic Church any more than we promoted the values of the Jewish religion when we listened to klezmer music or the Islamic religion when we listened to the Adhan or we will be promoting - we will not, in fact, be promoting the Lutheran tradition when we deal with Bach next time. We’re going to begin here with Gregorian chant, talking about the traditional music of the Roman Catholic Church. We could even add to that Post-Modernist now and probably throw into that Popular Music in a general way. Obviously: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, Modernism. We’ll be talking about the periods in the history of music beginning with the Middle Ages, and I’ve pit - put - the names of those periods that we will be covering in our course up here on the board. Professor Craig Wright: Today we begin a slightly different portion of our course. MUSI 112 - Lecture 15 - Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine ChapelĬhapter 1. ![]()
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