Gregorian Chant links

Gregorian Chant Homepage
Gregorian Schola Chant Links
Gregorian Chant Notation
CANTUS
Gregorian Chant Resources
Gregorian Chant on the Net; Bibliography
Una Voce links
Gregorian Schola links
Norbertine Gregorian chant
A selection of chant recordings
Gregorian Association
Chant discography
Goldberg essay
History of Gregorian Chant
OSB Gregorian Chant Bibliography and Resources
CE entry on plain chant
Jubilee 2000 page on chant
Ward Method Instruction; contacts; article on the Center for Ward Method Studies
PIMS: Gregorian Chant Workshop
Neum Notation Project
wiki

"Gregorian Chant: The Possibilities and Conditions for a Revival"

Decadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes

The Restoration of Gregorian Chant: Solesmes and the Vatican Edition

An Introduction to the Interpretation of Gregorian Chant: Volume I: Foundations by Luigi Agustoni and Johannes Berchmans Göschl: A Translation with Notes

Adoremus Bulletin: Chant Resources for Parishes; What you really must know about Gregorian Chant; 100th Anniversary of Pope Saint Pius X's Launch of Liturgy Reform

Sandro Magister interview of Domenico Bartolucci

Wow, there's a wiki entry for Fr. Skeris; Gregorian Revival.
Church Music Association of America
Ordos Antiquus

Links to Check at BC?
The Performance of Plain Chant
The Singing Church

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes
CE


Interview with Fr. Michael Bozell


Congregation de Solesmes
Books on Gregorian chant from Paraclete Press
An Act of Faith: Gregorian Chant at Solesmes, by Tobias Fischer
La Congrégation de Solesmes (daughter houses include Farnborough Abbey and Fontgombault)
Clear Creek Monks info


Dom Prosper Guéranger
The monk who helped revive the Benedictines in France after Benedictine communites had been suppressed by the French Revolution; he was also one of the forerunners of the modern Liturgical Movement, bringing with him an ultramontane zeal for the Roman rite.

Catholic Encyclopedia
Abbey of St. Benedict: Les ouvrages de Dom Guéranger
Hugh Thwaites, Was Dom Gueranger right after all?
Pope to Beatify Great Benedictine

Dom Joseph Gajard
Some mp3 files here of the schola under the direction of Dom Gajard (a photo of Dom Gajard here--scroll down a bit); Dom Gajard's The Solesmes Method

source

Dom André Mocquereau

(source)
Dom Andre Mocquereau, "The Art of Gregorian Music" (via the Saint Cecilia Schola Cantorum)

The Dom Mocquereau Collection (CUA: The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music)

Dom Eugene Cardine

This photo of Dom Eugene Cardine found at the website for Ensemble Trecanum.
(There's supposed to be another photo here, but it appears to be a dead link.) The Ensemble Trecanum:


Dom Joseph Pothier


source: biography (in French)

Exponent of the accentualist interpretation.

An explanation of some the interpretations, from the Harvard Dictionary of Music, posted by RP Burke at Open Book:

The rhythm of Gregorian chant is the subject of considerable controversy. In general, the notations of early sources do not indicate the duration of individual notes. Some early manuscripts employ a short horizontal line, theepisema, that is thought by some scholars to indicate a lengthening of any neume with which it appears. Some sources, particularly those from St. Gall, employ the so-called Romanian letters, someof which refer to rhythm and tempo. And some medieval writers discuss rhythm in ways that seem to be relevant to the performance of liturgical chant. But the rhythm of individual melodies and the rhythmic character of the repertory as a whole remain open to a variety of interpretations. Three principal points of view are generally distinguished.


1. The accentualist interpretation was formulated principally by Joseph Pothier (1835-1923), a Benedictine monk from the monastery at Solesmes, who held that by the time of the formation of the repertory the Latin language had abandoned quantity or length of syllables in favor of stress or accent as its principal rhythmic element and that thus all of the notes in chant are of essentially equal value, with word-accent determining the nature of the generally free and speechlike rhythm except in long melismas, where the first note in each group of neumes is accented.


2. The Solesmes view resulted from the manuscript studies of André Mocquereau (1849-1930), a monk trained at Solesmes under Pothier, whom he succeeded as choirmaster there, and it was upheld and taught by his own student and successor, Joseph Gajard (1885-1972). Mocquereau also regarded the rhythm of chant as essentially free and employing for the most part notes of equal value, but not as deriving primarily from word-accent, even though rhythm and other features of the chant are said to derive from the nature of the Latin language. In this view, rhythm is characterized instead by an alternation of rising (arsis or élan)and falling (thesis or repos) and by the free succession of groups of two and three notes. Each of these rhythmic units begins withan arsis and concludes with a thesis, and units may be combined to produce arsis and thesis on a larger scale. The beginning of each group is marked by the rhythmic ictus, which, however, not an accent and need not coincide with an accented syllable in the text. In modern chant books embodying this interpretation, the horizontal episema indicates a slight lengthening of notes, and signs not found in early manuscripts further guide the rhythm: the vertical episema, which marks the ictus when its location is not otherwise clear, the dot or punctum mora, which indicates a doubling in the length of the final note of some phrases, and the apostrophe, which indicates a pause for breath. Since the 1950s, work carried on or published at Solesmes by Eugène Cardine, based on detailed study (termed semiology) of neumes, has put forward a view of a free rhythm deriving from the flexible durations of Latin syllables.

3. The mensuralist interpretation holds that the chant is made up of a variety of different note lengths with a precise relationship to one another, most often two values in the ratio of 2 to 1. Within this framework, however, there is substantial disagreement as to details.

Dom Jean Claire

Santo Domingo de Silos




old address (outdated)
ucla
wiki
Their "Chant" cds released in the 90s gained them worldwide fame. CD: Gregorian Book of Silos (CD Universe)

As far as I know the monks there do not use the Mozarabic rite, even occasionally. I think they're strictly Roman, but the abbey may still have some manuscripts for the rite. (Don Jim has a post on the rite, which includes this link to a website dedicated to the Mozarabic rite: La Ermita.)

The saint, who restored the monastery and gave the town its name:

Catholic Forum
EWTN
Magnificat.ca

Abbaye St. Benoit Du Lac
another daughter house of Solesmes, located in Québec






Ensemble Dialogos
FEVIS
D I A L O G O S Ensemble vocal féminin
Goldberg
CHANTS MÉDIÉVAUX La Vision de Tondale
Friends of Chamber Music





Coming to Boston next Tuesday!

Tuesday, February 20, 8:00 p.m.: Dialogos (Paris, France) presents Tondal's Vision. Wellesley College, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Admission is free and open to the public. Further questions, please call 781-283-2176. For disability access, contact J. Wice at 781-283-2434. For more information on the artist, please visit www.ensemble-dialogos. Directed by Katarina Livljanic. Presented by the Wellesley College Department of Music with generous support from the Newhouse Humanities Center, the Mary Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities and the Edna Virginia Moffett Fund.

Alas, it's all the way in Wellsley, and I don't have a car or a horse and buggy.



Chant Wars, a cd produced with Sequentia. You can read more about the CD at Sequentia's home page and at NLM. CNN review. Sample.

Sequentia


Goldberg
Discography

Early Music Vocal Ensembles (by Brad Leissa)
Introduction
Mixed A-F
Mixed G-Z
Female
Male
Trebles and Countertenors

Anonymous 4
Ars Antiqua
The Rose Ensemble

Frans Waltman list of ensembles

Links to Various Scholae and Other Organizations:
CE answers the question, "What is a schola cantorum?"
Saint Cecilia Schola Cantorum
St. Cecilia Music Society
Saint Gregory Society
Association for Latin Liturgy (UK)
Latin Liturgy Association
Liturgical Institute
Society of Saint Gregory
Society of Saint John Fisher (random link)
Juventutem Blog (another random link)
Priestly Society of the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (Fr. Stravinskas's group)
Institute of Sacred Music Events
Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director

Associazione Viri Galilaei
Atlanta SC
Brazos Valley Schola Cantorum
CANTICUM NOVUM - Schola Cantorum Bogotensis. Canto Gregoriano
Dordrecht
Chorus Breviarii
Gregorian Schola
The London Oratory School Schola
Sacred Heart Church (Sacramento, CA)
St. Agnes Church
The St.Ann Choir Website
Saint Cecilia Cathedral (Omaha, NE)
The St. Cecilia Chorale and Schola Cantorum - Burbank, California
Sarum
SC Riga (Latvia)
Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino: Official Website
Schola Cantorum SF
SC Cardinal Vaughan
SC Neumann College
SCP: Gregorian Chant at Princeton University
Schola Cantorum Saliensis
Schola Cantorum Sancti Pauli
Schola Cantorum van de Sint-Baafskathedraal Gent
SC of Syracuse
Schola Gregoriana Mediolanensis
Schola Gregoriana Monostorinensis
Schola Saint Grégoire
Scola Catharina
Scola Gregoriana Brugensis
The Stamford Schola Gregoriana

"Modern" scholae
Liverpool Schola Cantorum
St. Bartholomew's Church : : Schola Cantorum
Schola Cantorum (Mountain View)
Schola Cantorum (Virginia)
Schola Cantorum Leipzig
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
schola cantorum of texas
Schola Cantorum on Hudson
la Schola Cantorum (Paris)
Tewkesbury Abbey (see also Choristors - Schola Cantorum)
Yale Schola Cantorum

Cathedral Choirs
Campaign for the Traditional Cathedral Choir (CTCC)
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL (choir school, blog)
Clifton Diocese Music
Leeds Cathedral
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Choir
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
St. John's (Norwich); BBC - Norfolk Faith - The voices of Norwich Cathedral Choir
St. George's Cathedral, Southwark

St Mary's Cathedral Choir
St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney, AUS)
St. Patrick's (Melbourne, AUS)

Anglican:
Of Choristers, Ancient and Modern
Birmingham Cathedral
Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir
Welcome to the website of Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choirs
Chester Cathedral Choir
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford - Index
Durham Cathedral - Music at Durham Cathedral
Hereford Cathedral Choir
Lichfield Cathedral Choir
The Choir - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine
Peterborough Cathedral Music
Salisbury Cathedral Choir
Welcome to St Paul's Cathedral - Music and choir
WELLS CATHEDRAL - MUSIC
Westminster Abbey Choir (ok not a catheral)
The Official Winchester Cathedral Website

College Choirs:
Christ's College Choir - Home
Christ Church Website - College Choir
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford - Index
The Choir of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Home
Girton College Chapel Choir
Gonville and Caius College Chapel Choir
Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
The Choir of Keble College, Oxford
King's College Choir
King's College Choir, Cambridge
King's College London
The Choir of New College Oxford
Pembroke College - University of Oxford
Queens' College Chapel Choir, Cambridge
The Queen's College, Oxford
St Catharine's College Chapel Choir
St Chad's College Choir
St John's College - Chapel & Choir - Chapel & Choir (St John's College Choir Association)
Trinity College Cambridge - Music at Trinity
Trinity College Cambridge - The Choral Scholars
Trinity College Choir
Worcester College Chapel


King's Singers


The King's Singers, England's premiere vocal choral ensemble.
the king's singers - six healthy englishmen
King's Singers on Rhapsody
Music Preview: Countertenor is living a dream with King's singers
Signum Records
a-capella.com
wiki

some other photos

Misc:
Choir of The King's Consort
Welcome to Keswick Hall Choir, Norwich England
Christ the Savior Monastery
St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral - Cathedral Choir