At 1:43 PM -0500 1/15/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:04 PM, John Howell wrote:
When did they stop composing Gregorian chant? They didn't!
Oh yes they did. They stopped composing it when Charlemagne and the
church together started enforcing its fixity and uniformity in the
9th c. Of course composing continued thereafter, but the new
compositions were tropes, sequences, motets, conductus...
I can't cite the source where I read this, but it said that as new
texts are adopted right up until today, new chants can be and are
composed for them. I suspect that the monks at St. Meinrad's or
other specialists in continuing the chant tradition would know the
answer. And I'm not talking about the polyphonic forms that lived
off the chant repertoire for centuries, but about monophonic chant
(which I generalized as Gregorian, even though that's a misleading
label).
John
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