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The Gregorian Chant website

On this website, you can find the most famous Gregorian chants used in the Roman Catholic Liturgy. The songs are accompanied by Latin text, English translation (where available) and scores in square notation.

This website contains 101 pages and 60 sheet music files in JPG and PDF format to use and download.

Famous quotes:

"What was sacred to previous generations remains sacred and great for us too, and cannot suddenly be completely prohibited or even judged harmful." (Benedict XVI)^[1]

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Info & Utility

Types of Chants

   0 Antiphons
   0 Introit
   0 Graduals
   0 Tracts
   0 Alleluia
   0 Hymns
   0 Graduals
   0 Psalms
   0 Sequences
   0 Offertory
   0 Responsory
   0 Communions
   0 Various
   1 Masses
   5 Common Tones

Antiphonae

Introitum

Hymnus

Tractus

The Tract (in Latin Tractus, in Ambrosian chant Cantus) is a liturgical chant between the readings, which belongs to the Proper of the Mass. In the Tridentine Mass it replaces the Alleluia verse during Lent, during the Season of Septuagesima, and in Masses for the dead. After the liturgical reform of the Roman rite in 1969, in the acclamation before the Gospel, one may sing instead of the Alleluia during Lent either the verse placed in the Lectionary before the Gospel, or another psalm or a tract as found in the Gradual^[2].

Documents and Books

The Gregorian Chant

Trattazioni:

Gregorian chant on WikiPedia.org;

Downloadable Gregorian Chant Books - Official Editions::

Downloadable Gregorian Chant Books - Complementary Editions:

Liber Usualis (1961);

Sacred Music and the Liturgy

Gregorian Chant Books to Buy (Solesmes Abbey)

Note

↑ Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops on the occasion of the publication of the apostolic letter "Motu Proprio Data" SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reformation carried out in 1970.
↑ General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Link: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20030317_ordinamento-messale_it.html

[1] Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops on the occasion of the publication of the apostolic letter "Motu Proprio Data" SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reformation carried out in 1970.

[2] General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Link: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20030317_ordinamento-messale_it.html

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