Problems listening to the file?Gregorian chant originated in Monastic life, in which singing the 'Divine Service' nine times a day at the proper hours was upheld according to the rule of St.Singing psalms made up a large part of the life in a monastic community, while a smaller group and soloists sang the chants.In its long history Gregorian Chant has been subjected to many gradual changes and some reforms.Dissemination and hegemony 1.Ordinary chants of the Mass 4.Although popular belief credits Pope Gregory the Great with having personally invented Gregorian chant, scholars now believe that the chant bearing his name arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant and that at that time the attribution to Gregory I was a 'marketing ruse' to invest it with a pedigree of Holy Inspiration in efforts to create one liturgic protocol that would be practised throughout the entire Empire.During the following centuries the Chant tradition was still at the heart of Church music, where it gave rise to various extensions in the sense that new performance practices had won their way in in which new music on new texts was introduced or the existing chants were extended by setting them as Organum.This practice continued into the lifetime of Francois Couperin, whose Organ Masses were meant to be performed with alternating homophonic Chant.It is the music of the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office.Development of earlier plainchant Unaccompanied singing has been part of the Christian liturgy since the earliest days of the Church.Canonical hours have their roots in Jewish prayer hours."Amen" and "alleluia" come from Hebrew, a...