The Gregorian Chant

Authors

P. E. Kretzmann, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

9-1-1934

Document Type

Article

Keywords

gregorian chant, church music, pope gregory, dickinson, ambrose

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

What is the orign1 of the so-called Gregorian Chant? That is the question asked by Dickinson in his splendid monograph on music in the Western Church. He himself interestingly expounds his question: "There is hardly a more interesting question in the whole history of music; for this chant is the basis of the whole magnificent structure of medieval church song and, in a certain sense of all modern music, and it can be traced back unbroken to the earliest years of the Christian Church. the most persistent and fruitful form of art that the modem world has known."

Disciplines

Liturgy and Worship

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Kretzmann, P. E. (1934) "The Gregorian Chant," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 5, Article 76.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol5/iss1/76