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monks who are experts in the singing of Gregorian Chant.
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The monks originally sang Mozarabic chant, then the Gregorian chant.
Gregorian chants were used as a means of group meditation and prayer by monks who sang them together in monasteries.
The Gregorian Chant is designed to contribute to worship during Mass. I was an early form of music from the Middle Ages that was sung only by monks and priests of the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the text, or lyrics, were sung in "Church Latin."
Gregorian chant is beautiful and prayerful music.
'Polyphony' does not describe Gregorian chant.
Anyone may sing Gregorian Chant, but only males that are part of the choir (laity or professed monks) or nuns that are attached to the parish may sing in the choir during Mass. This rule only applies to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
Gregorian chant or Plaint chant is known as monophony. Many voices, unaccompanied, and all singing in unison.
monophonic
Plainchant, Gregorian chant, monophonic chant, plainsong.
a gregorian chant was used as the base part for the motet and was called the cantus firmus