Ambrosian chant

The Gregorian system of modes does not apply to Ambrosian chant.

"Columbia University gave me $3,000 in 1956 to do the research on Ambrosian chant.

At Columbia University, he began a graduate thesis on Ambrosian chant.

Ambrosian chants are more varied in length, ambitus, and structure.

Ambrosian chant is in general more repetitious and more ornate than Gregorian.

Ambrosian chant did not wholly escape Gregorian influence.

Ambrosian chant developed to meet the particular needs of the Ambrosian liturgy.

Like all plainchant, Ambrosian chant is monophonic and a cappella.

"What I've tried to do is take the liturgical history of Ambrosian chant and determine when feasts were introduced.

Ambrosian chants, including psalm antiphons, do not conform to the Gregorian system of modes.

Ambrosian Chant.

Ambrosian chant is a style of liturgical music introduced in the 4th Century by Saint Ambrose.

Ambrosian chant is distinct from Gregorian chant.

Stylistically, the Ambrosian chant repertoire is not generally as musically uniform as the Gregorian.

The Ambrosian chants are among the first codified music in Western culture, which fact led to the later development of our concept of scales, for example.

"Ambrosian chant has very little of that trimmed element, that refined element that Gregorian has," he added.

Ambrosian chant alone survived to the present day, preserved in Milan due to the musical reputation and ecclesiastical authority of St. Ambrose.

O Sacrum Convivium exists in Gregorian and Ambrosian chant forms.

Ambrosian chant alone survived, despite the efforts of several Popes over a period of several centuries to establish Gregorian hegemony.

Musically, however, Ambrosian chant is closely related to the Gregorian and Old Roman chant traditions.

More specific terms such as Gregorian chant, Ambrosian chant, Gallican chant are also found.

The Psallendi, unrelated to the Psallendae of Ambrosian chant, end with the Doxology.

This system results in a much larger number of possible psalm tones in Ambrosian chant than exists in Gregorian chant.

These expansions contain some of the longest melismas of the Ambrosian chant repertoire, which often contain complex repeat structures.

Nearly all of the texts used in Ambrosian chant are biblical prose, not metrical poetry, despite Ambrose having introduced Eastern hymnody to the West.