Christian chants

form of song

A responsory or respond is a type of chant in western Christian liturgies.

liturgical plainchant repertory of the Ambrosian rite of the Roman Catholic Church

abbey located in Sarthe, in France

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French ; ) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring to the term plainsong, it is those sacred pieces that are composed in Latin text. Plainsong was the exclusive form of the Western Christian church music until the ninth century and the introduction of polyphony.

liturgical plainchant repertory of the Visigothic/Mozarabic rite of the Catholic Church,

musical form

medieval hymn

thumb|Gregorian chant setting for [[Kyrie XI notated in neumes.]]

Belgian composer, Jesuit and palaeographer (1797-1855)

French musicologist

liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman Catholic Church

A tonary is a liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists by incipit various items of Gregorian chant according to the Gregorian mode (tonus) of their melodies within the eight-mode system. Tonaries often include Office antiphons, the mode of which determines the recitation formula for the accompanying text (the psalm tone if the antiphon is sung with a psalm, or canticle tone if the antiphon is sung with a canticle), but a tonary may also or instead list responsories or Mass chants not associated with formulaic recitation. Although some tonaries are stand-alone works, they wer

Catholic Gregorian chant

Christian hymn focused on the Virgin Mary

liturgical vocal music of the Roman rite of the Early Christian Church