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Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. Although popular belief credited Pope Gregory the Great with having personally invented Gregorian chant scholars now believe that the chant bearing his name arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant, and that at that time the attribution to Gregory I was a "marketing ruse" to invest it with a sanctified pedigree, as part of an effort to create one liturgical protocol that would be practised throughout the entire Holy Roman Empire.

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Who was the composer and important contributor to gregorian chant?

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What is Gregoran chant's most famous piece of music?

Gregoran Chant is not a composer. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. Get a chant composer and we will evaluate the work.


Is gregorian chant devil work or music?

Gregorian chant is beautiful and prayerful music.


What words does not describe Gregorian Chant?

'Polyphony' does not describe Gregorian chant.


The texture of Gregorian chant is said to be?

Gregorian chant or Plaint chant is known as monophony. Many voices, unaccompanied, and all singing in unison.


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Texture of Gregorian chant?

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What words refer to plainsong?

Plainchant, Gregorian chant, monophonic chant, plainsong.


A medieval motet was built on a phrase of gregorian chant called?

a gregorian chant was used as the base part for the motet and was called the cantus firmus


What type of chant became the predominant type of music in Roman Catholic churches during the early middle ages?

Gregorian chant


Is a Gregorian chant?

nope. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical chant of Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services.


Why is Gregorian Chant believed to be relaxing?

because it is.