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§ Gregorian Chant and Numes

created 2024-04-14
  • 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 C and F, 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.
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