What are the characteristics of a gregorian chant?

Answer 1

polyphony.

Answer 2

Gregorian Chants originated in the monasteries of Europe. They were sung in Latin, without any instruments. The chants were praises to God.

Go to your local book store like Barnes & Nobel, go to the media center and they should have examples to listen to. Any on-line music site should have a listing of those chants to hear.

Answer 3

Gregorian chant is a corpus (or large collection) of music, instead of an individual style. As such, different chants will have different characteristics. Despite this, there are several unique traits to Gregorian chants that differentiate them from other types of music. Gregorian chant is monophonic meaning there is only one voice and no harmony. It has free rhythm, meaning that while it has the natural rhytm of the prose speech in which it is written, it does not have metrical rhythm like many other songs - it's missing a repeating beat. Gregorian chant is often sung a capella, without musical accompaniment, but the last few centuries of Gregorian chant introduced the use of organs into the music. Lastly, Gregorian chant is a sung prayer. It is not a performance but just another way of praying.

Answer 4

The musical characteristics of the Gregorian Chant include:

• It is sung without musical accompaniment.
• It started in the 7th century and was sung primarily by monks to accompany the Mass and Biblical reading of the Divine Office.
• It is sung very softly, not full voice.

Answer 5

melody sung without accompaniment

Answer 6

polyphony

Answer 7

monophonic

Answer 8

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