Re: [lace-chat] Gregorian chants

[Martha Krieg]

Carol, I agree, but a minor point: Pope Gregory didn't have the idea 
of putting the Mass to music. Chant was part of the liturgy among the 
Jews, and some of the psalm tones in the Gregorian psalms are 
identical to the Jewish ones. What Pope Gregory did was try to get it 
written down and codified ("done correctly")...because back in those 
days the idea of desirable variation didn't seem to exist much. It 
tended to be "if it isn't correct, it must be inferior".
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