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Gre·go·ri·an chant

/ɡrəˌɡôrēən ˈCHant/

noun
- 1. church music sung as a single vocal line in free rhythm and a restricted scale (plainsong), in a style developed for the medieval Latin liturgy.
Word Origin mid 18th century: named after St Gregory the Great (in Latin Gregorius), who is said to have standardized it.
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Gregorian chant
Form of song
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Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope Gregory I with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars b... Wikipedia
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