2.  Gregorian chant is the central tradition of
Western plainchant, a form of monophonic,
unaccompanied sacred song of the
western Roman Catholic Church.It is also
called Sung Bible.
 Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12
March 604), commonly known as Saint
Gregory the Great, was Pope from 3
September 590 to his death in 604.

4.  Pope from 590 to 604, reformer and excellent
administrator, “founder” of the
medieval papacy, which exercised both secular
and spiritual power. His epithet, “the Great,”
reflects his status as a writer as well as a ruler.
As the fourth and final of the traditional Latin
“Fathers of the Church,” Gregory was the first
exponent of a truly medieval, sacramental
spirituality.

5.  Characteristics of the Gregorian
Chants:
 monophonic
 Free meter
 Modal
 Usually based on Latin liturgy
 Use of Neume notation

6.  the simplest of textures, consisting of
melody without accompanying harmony.
This may be realized as just one note at a
time, or with the same note duplicated at
the octave (such as often when men and
women sing together).

7.  Modal music uses diatonic scales
that are not necessarily major or
minor and does not use functional
harmony as we understand it within
tonality.

8.  A neume ; sometimes
spelled neum) is the basic element
of Western and Eastern systems
of musical notation prior to the
invention of five-
line staff notation.

9.  A troubadour (English , French: ; Occitan:
 trobador,IPA: ) was a composer and performer
of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High
Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the
word troubadour is etymologically masculine,
a female troubadour is usually called
a trobairitz.
 The role of the troubadours changed to part
of an elite society of royalty and nobles.
 They are poets that came from Southern
France

10.  from trobar "to find," earlier "invent a song,
compose in verse," perhaps from Vulgar
Latin *tropare"compose, sing," especially in
the form of tropes, from Latin tropus "a song
 the theme of courtly love.

11.  Music:
 Usually monophonic
 Sometimes with improvised accompaniment
 Tells of chivalry and courtly love
 Originated in France
 Written in the French language