§ Gregorian chant and numes

• 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.