Contents
IntroductionChapter 1 The Curtain Goes Up“Gregorian” Chant, the First Literate Repertory, and How It Got That Way
Literacy
The Romans and the Franks
The Carolingian Renaissance
The chant comes north
The legend of St. Gregory
The origins of Gregorian chant
Monastic psalmody
The development of the liturgy
The Mass and its music
Neumes
Persistence of oral tradition
Psalmody in practice: The Office
Psalmody in practice: The Mass
Evidence of “oral composition”
Why we will never know how it all began
Beginnings, as far as we know themChapter 2 New Styles and FormsFrankish Additions to the Original Chant Repertory
Longissimae melodiae
Prosa
Sequences
How they were performed
Hymns
Tropes
The Mass Ordinary
Kyries
The full Franko-Roman Mass
“Old Roman” and other chant dialects