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"Gregorian Chant: How and Why It Was Strangled in Its Own Cradle"

Sandro Magister’s latest article takes us to the Camaldolese Benedictine monastery in Rome—the site of Pope St. Gregory the Great’s throne—where the patrimony of Gregorian chant was overturned one fateful night in the ’60s.

Posted 11.25.2003
by Aristotle Esguerra
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Peace, all.

Cradle? Sounds like the baby (guitar) strangled the grandfather to me. Why does everything have to boil down to an either/or choice? Plainsong has been buffeted by innovation in music since organum. Why should 1960 have been any different?


Todd
11.26.2003 @ 8:45 am #

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