Western plainchant

form of song

thumb|290x290px|Printed antiphonary (ca. 1700) open to Vespers of Easter Sunday. ([[Musée de l'Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris)]] An antiphonary or antiphonal is one of the liturgical books intended for use (i.e. in the liturgical choir), and originally characterized, as its name implies, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the Latin liturgical rites.

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

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,

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

ancient Irish manuscript in Latin

liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman Catholic Church

A cantatorium is a collection of chants for the Mass and solo pieces for the Liturgy of the Word with simple congregational responses of graduals, alleluias, tracts or cantica.

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