- A Beginners guide to reading gregorian chant notation
- Basic gregorian chant and sight reading by sister mary demetria
- Neumes on wikipedia
- Invented by guido of arezzo .
- The notation is called neumes, or "square notes".
- 4 line staff.
- Clefs are
CandF, can be changed in the middle of a piece. - Monophonic, no harmony (chords)
- No meter.
- Read left to right, bottom to top. So if two notes are stacked one on top of another, we read the lower then the higher.
- Has notation that can be decoded into modern notation fairly straightforwardly.