Music 1710F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading : Roman Rite, Classical Antiquity, Pope Gregory I
20 Dec 2016
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Medieval thinkers associate music and singing with the process of memory. The mus ica l nota tion of cla s s ica l a ntiquity ha d be e n tota lly los t by the be ginning of the middle. Age s , a nd tha t a ll pra ctica l mus ic wa s tra ns mitte d by ora l tra dition. This conception of time is integrally bound up with the additive quality of pre- fourteenth-century musical rhythm. One of the conditions of tha t unifica tion wa s the standardization of the liturgy of the church and its attendant music a ccording to the us e of the roma n rite . Importe d ca ntors form rome who could te a ch the ir cha nt by rote to the fra nkis h ca ntor.
