Gregorian

Examples

• All

• In order to lead all these magnificent young singers and Gregorian chants, I had to learn the Gregorian chants.

• The silence of that huge space was broken only by a Gregorian chant sung by the priests in this cathedral built at the heart of a mosque.

  Academic text (2011)

• We're going to begin here with Gregorian chant talking about the traditional music of the Roman Catholic Church.

• And she really kind of sounds like she's doing a Gregorian chant.

• A type of Gregorian chant that is characterized by the presence of melismas.

  Academic text (2003)

• It sort of flows gently, like Gregorian chant.

• Sir, the song of your generation is Gregorian Chant Deus Eire.

• For example, since the Bukvich composition was based on a neo-Gregorian motif, students listened to authentic Gregorian chant and looked at samples of Gregorian notation.

  Academic text (2005)

• A Gregorian chant can, for many, send a shudder up the spine, but in the richly symbolic space of the Cathedral-Mosque, the chant I heard there was unlike any other.

  Academic text (2011)

• The choir performed a beautiful Gregorian chant during the mass.

Compounds

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Gregorian chant

2 9.5

A sacred song of one melody that people sing with voices and no instruments in the Catholic Church

G

Gregorian calendar

1 3.9

A system used for counting days, months, and years in most countries today

G

Gregorian mode

• Specialized

9.9

A musical scale used in old church singing that gives chants a special sound

G

Gregorian telescope

• Specialized

8.9

A telescope that uses two curved mirrors to focus light back through a hole in the main mirror

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology