Lenten Music through the Ages, Part 1: Praying With One Voice: Gregorian Chant

Episode Topic:  Praying With One Voice, Gregorian Chant

We’ll start our learning journey through Lenten music with Gregorian Chant — this is the earliest music of the Church. We don’t really know exactly what this music sounded like, but we know that song was a part of culture. What we have now are fossils, the remains of a musical culture. In reality, music develops through practice, by people who are trained in a discipline and develop music for specific events.

Featured Speakers: 

• J.J. Wright ’14, Director, Notre Dame Folk Choir.
• Professor Peter Jeffery, Michael P. Grace Chair in Medieval Studies and Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the Rome Book Club ThinkND Series titled “Lenten Music through the Ages”.

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