Pope Gregory I, from the 6th century, is often credited (slightly inaccurately, as it turns out) with helping shape Western plainchant, which still bares his name today as Gregorian chant.

The book assesses the achievements of both composers, measuring their work against the heritage, discipline and compositional principles of western plainchant, and heralding its significance as a ...

Visitors are encouraged to immerse themselves in western plainchant tradition, which extends back to the 10th century, both through the exhibition, the live performances, and to complete the 360 ...

Cristle Collins Judd (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998) Hiley David, ‘Notation’, in Western Plainchant - A Handbook (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1993), pp. 340-401 Levy, Kenneth, ‘On the origin of neumes’, ...

“Plainchant is the oldest repertoire sung continuously in Western Europe,” he said. “It is the bedrock of our whole musical culture, and in every age it has inspired new forms of musical writing, even ...

Troestrochny and demestvenny polyphony are in no way related to Western European music; instead of the European major-minor modal system, the aesthetics of alternating consonances and dissonances, Old ...

But the first known performance of his newly uncovered setting of a piece of plainchant took place in a modern, pine-clad lecture theatre in Manchester yesterday. The great composer is thought to ...

Plainchant antiphons — probably too many for frequent listening — are interwoven with Renaissance music, as well as new works. There is a clutch of first recordings, most of them ORA’s own ...