Gregorian chant is a form of monophonic sacred song that was central to Western plainchant tradition in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Gregory I, who was Pope from 590 to 604, is considered the founder of the medieval papacy and was influential in spreading and establishing Gregorian chant. Characteristics of Gregorian chant include being monophonic, using free meter and modal scales, based on Latin liturgy, and notated using neumes.

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