all things gregorian chant

To balance out some of our “metal” posts, here are a few links related to Gregorian chant:

• Very cool directory of Gregorian chants, inchoro.net, with musics and lyrics.
• Of course the wikipedia Gregorian chant entry.
• Björk interviews chant-inspired Arvo Pärt.
• The New Liturgical Movement.
• Stanford’s William Mahrt keeps chant alive.  Here’s an article on “Gregorian chant as a paradigm for sacred music.”
• The Guidonian Hand illustrated by William Mahrt (here’s the notation).
• David Hiley’s Gregorian Chant (Cambridge University Press) is a good intro: history, evolution, technique, the basics.
• A 1906 book (translation, in the public domain) on the New School of Gregorian Chant.
• And, lots of chant-related links at music.princeton.edu.

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