The Restoration of Gregorian Chant
Subtitle: Solesmes and the Vatican Edition
Contributors: Theodore N. Marier (Translator); William Skinner (Translator)
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780813213484
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Sacred & religious music; Music; Christianity - Ritual & Practice; Religion - Catholicism; Christianity - History - Catholic; Religion - Classic Works; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; Religious - General; Gregorian chants; History and criticism
First sentence: More than a hundred years have passed since a young monk methodically began studying the elements of Gregorian chant and copying old manuscripts, by order of Dom Gueranger.