Cantatorium

There is 13 more manuscripts available In the virtual Library Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG), among them important codices with neumatic notation including Cantatorium – the earliest complete extant musical manuscript in the world (922 – 925): Codex 338 – Computus, Breviarium, Graduale, Sakramentar (1050-1060) Graduale is on folios 36 – 317 Codex 359 – Cantatorium […]

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Gregofacsimil

Great new source of information about chant manuscripts and also source of chant scores is available online on the site Gregofacsimil. Website is in French language. If you don’t understand French at all, you can try automated translations: English, German. On the page you can find introduction to problematic of restitution of chant melodies, some […]

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Alberto Turco in Košice

Internationally acknowledged Italian specialist on Gregorian chant Alberto Turco is going to visit Košice, Slovakia. He will lead here Workshop called Music between Heaven and Earth – Gregorian chant Workshop organizes Liturgical Institute of Ján Jalovecký (Theologic Faculty of Catholic University). It will be held from 17th – 19th march 2007 on Hlavná 89 Street […]

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Officium Majoris Hebdomadae

Chant book which we mentioned in the last post, is already available online on the webpage of CMAA. It contains chants for celebrations of Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday (including earlier supplied Passion Narratives)through Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. From the whole interresting content we pick out: Lamentations of Jeremiah with […]

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Passio Domini Nostri

There are great new chant resources on the web of church music association of america: Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthæum Marcum Lucam Joannem Size of each PDF file is cca 1.8 MB. Chants are scanned from: Officium Majoris Hebdomadae et Octavae Paschae cum canto juxta ordinem Breviarii, Missalis et Pontificalis Romani editio compendiosa […]

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Gregorian repertoire

Interesting Index of gregorian chants is available on the site gregorien.info. In the database is stored the occurence of particular chants in selected chant literature. Chants are sorted by title, type (introitus, graduale…), bible source and literature. Majority of the content is in french language. Here is the list of indexed literature: Graduale Triplex 1979 […]

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