Pope Gregory I the Great is the pope you are referring to. He did not write Gregorian Chants. He compiled and cataloged the plain songs that were used in liturgies at the time. Later they became known as Gregorian Chants.
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Gregorian chants are monophonic.
Gergorian chants are no longer written as they were long ago.
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Pope St. Gregory I, 'The Great,' and cataloged the Gregorian Chants.
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Edmund Gregory Hurley has written:
'Gregorian chant for the teacher, the choir, and the school' -- subject(s): Instruction and study, Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.), Gregorian chants
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Gregorian chants were used as a means of group meditation and prayer by monks who sang them together in monasteries.
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Norman Holly has written:
'Elementary grammar of Gregorian chant' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants
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David Nicholson has written:
'A dictionary of plainsong' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Gregorian chants
'Singing in God's ear' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, Instruction and study
'Vernacular and music in the missions'
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Gregorian chants are a form of plainchant, named after Pope Gregory I. However, it is believed that these chants were actually composed by multiple anonymous authors over the centuries, rather than solely by Pope Gregory I. They are an important part of the early Christian liturgical music tradition.
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The following are characteristics of Gregorio chants except:
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Joseph Schrembs has written:
'The Gregorian chant manual of the Catholic music hour' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants
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Pope St. Gregory I, the Great, collected the melodies and plain chant so associated with him that they are now known as Gregorian Chants.
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Gregorian chants were not a popular form during the Renaissance period.
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Gregorian chants or solo singing pieces are monophonic.
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John Rennie Bryden has written:
'An index of Gregorian chant' -- subject(s): Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.), Indexes, Thematic catalogs, Thematiccatalogs
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John Boe has written:
'Chant and notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300' -- subject(s): Beneventan chants, Gregorian chants, History and criticism, Tropes (Music)
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St. Gregory the Great, who was the Pope that formalized and promoted this form of singing, eliminating other singing that was from less than sacred sources.
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Aldhelm Dean has written:
'Practical plainsong' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, Instruction and study
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Most of the chants were created during the Early Middle Ages. The best known chants today are the Gregorian chants, which were compiled according to the wishes of Pope Gregory I, who was pope from 590 to 604.
The consensus of musicologists may be that the chants date from after the year 300. I have seen some disagreement on this, and there have been some important authors who have expressed the view that they were much older than that.
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Alberto Turco has written:
'Il canto gregoriano' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, History and criticism
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Gregorian Chant named after Pope Gregory the Great who compiled all the chants that were being used at the time.
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Bonaventura has written:
'Regula musice plane' -- subject(s): Instruction and study, Gregorian chants, Early works to 1800
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Clyde W. Brockett has written:
'Antiphons, responsories, and other chants of the Mozarabic rite' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Church music, Gregorian chants, History and criticism, Mozarabic rite, Neumes
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The monks at the Abbey of Solesmes typically sing Gregorian chants during daily prayer services, known as the Liturgy of the Hours. These services are held at various times throughout the day, including early morning (Matins), mid-morning (Lauds), midday (Sext), late afternoon (Vespers), and evening (Compline).
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Francis Burgess has written:
'Mozart's Don Giovanni'
'The teaching & accompaniment of plainsong' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, Instruction and study
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Very much so. Gregorian chants later in the Middle Ages started to become composed by artists who would write pieces for the church and pieces for secular crowds as well. So basically it was the artists that transitioned causing attention to the secular style of their pieces.
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Your question is phrased rather strangely - perhaps you mean "What accompaniment was there to monk's singing?". They obviously sang with their voices, but you must have some other thought in mind.
The answer is there was no musical accompaniment; singing was called Plainsong or Gregorian Chant and was entirely a cappella, without any instruments. There was also no harmony, descant or bass; everyone sang exactly the same note at the same time (hence Plainsong).
The only departure from this rule was that occasionally a piece would be started solo, then the choir would join in; the soloist might have additional parts later in the piece.
The link below takes you to a Youtube version of Dies Irae sung exactly as it was in the 13th century:
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Early medieval sacred music had a homophonic, or one line structure, such as Gregorian chants. Its sole quality was free flowing with some syllables extended out over several notes. Gregorian chants evolved into Organum, which added several additional lines to the structure.
A salient characteristic of secular music from the Medieval period are strong, dance-like rhythms performed by a combination of instruments and voices.
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Hugo Berger has written:
'Untersuchungen zu den Psalmdifferenzen' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Church music, Gregorian chants, History and criticism
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Pope St. Gregory the Great collected the melodies and plain chant of the Church and they became so associated with him that they are now known as Gregorian Chants.
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Throughout the Middle Ages he was known as "the Father of Christian Worship" because of his exceptional efforts in revising the Roman worship of his day.
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I suspect you are thinking of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen. Here is a link to the wikipedia entry about her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
She was an amazing woman and her music is beautiful.
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He did not write music. He compiled and cataloged all plain songs being used in liturgies. Later, they became known as Gregorian chants.
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Carlton Thrasher Russell has written:
'The southern French tonary in the tenth and eleventh centuries' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, Tonarius, History and criticism
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Heinz Wagener has written:
'Die Begleitung des gregorianishcen Chorals im neunzehnten Jahrhundert' -- subject(s): Accompaniments, Gregorian chants, Instruction and study
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Ewald Jammers has written:
'Aufzeichnungsweisen der einstimmigen ausserliturgischen Musik des Mittelalters' -- subject(s): History, Music theory, Musical notation
'Der mittelalterliche Choral' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, Church music, Catholic Church, History and criticism
'Der gregorianische Rhythmus' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Gregorian chants, History and criticism, Musical Paleography, Musical meter and rhythm, Neumes, Paleography, Musical
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This type of call and response singing came from the Middle Ages era. They started with Gregorian chants or plainchants which was only a single melody and based on these chants, polytextual music was formed, meaning that more than one melody was sung at a time. Call and response singing was called responsarial singing
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Ad Duclos has written:
'Sa Saintete Pie X et la musique religieuse' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Gregorian chants, Church music
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* Genre: Classical There are arguments concerning the proper use of the term "Gregorian" in reference to chants. Generally the term refers to any chants written in the church modes, often employing texts from the psalms or the gospels. They developed during the papacy of Gregory the Great (d.604) but generally refer to the Church music of the 11th through 13th centuries. There is a distinction between Roman and Gregorian chants that obfuscates the origin and characterizes true Gregorian chant (that which developed with Gregory I and Gregory II), and Roman chants. There certainly are distinctions that scholars have drawn; however, the distinctions most accurately refer to different styles than to two different types of chants. The Gregorian chant contained phrases that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye often in the form of arches. Musical strains were often related to the text in the context of the contours of the musical line and what the text is addressing. Clearly there was also a balance between melisma and syllabic writing without an over abundance of the former. Though there were exceptions to the eight Church modes, most Gregorian chants were written in that vein. http://www.answers.com/topic/gregorian-chant
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A homonym for "chants" is "chants." Homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings.
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Gisela Attinger has written:
'A comparative study of chant melodies from fragments of the lost Nidaros antiphoner' -- subject(s): History and criticism, Antiphons (Music), Antiphonaries, Gregorian chants
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George Vincent Predmore has written:
'Sacred music and the Catholic Church' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Choirs (Music), Church music, Gregorian chants, Liturgy
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Lauren Ford has written:
'Lauren Ford's Christmas book' -- subject(s): Nativity, Art
'The little book about God' -- subject(s): Bible stories, Bible stories, English, English Bible stories
'The Ageless Story' -- subject(s): Juvenile literature, Gregorian chants, Art, Childhood
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Anno Domini (ADor A.D.) and Before Christ (BC or B.C.) are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The termAnno Domini is Medieval Latin
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Lucien David has written:
'Le rythme verbal et musical dans le chant romain' -- subject(s): Gregorian chants, History and criticism, Musical meter and rhythm
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Pope Gregory the Great loved liturgical music and compiled all the chants that were being used throughout the Church. Later this music came to be called Gregorian Chant in his honor.
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Created by Pope Gregory the chants are a form of music that praises God through the use of the voice only. There is no instruments involved. They are very soothing to listen too and are unlike any other music.
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Franz Xaver Haberl was a German musician, musicologist, and conductor who was known for his work on Gregorian chant. He was the founder of the Paleographic Commission of the International Society of Music and a significant figure in the field of musicology.
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