Mozarabic chant

Like all plainchant, Mozarabic chant was monophonic and a cappella.

Dissatisfaction with the term "Mozarabic chant" has led to the use of several competing names for the music to which it refers.

The monks originally sang Mozarabic chant.

Mozarabic Chant

Mozarabic chant

The musical forms encountered in Mozarabic chant present a number of analogies with those of the Roman rite.

The music of the early medieval Christian church in Spain is known misleadingly as the "Mozarabic Chant".

Mozarabic chants used a different system of psalm tones for psalm antiphons than Gregorian chant.

Unlike the standardized Gregorian classification of chants into eight modes, Mozarabic chant used between four and seven, depending on the local tradition.

In Spain and Portugal, Mozarabic chant was used and shows the influence of North African music.

Restricted to a handful of dedicated chapels, modern Mozarabic chant is highly Gregorianized and bears no musical resemblance to its original form.

Among musicologists, he is particularly known for his publications on Mozarabic chant, Arabic music theory, and Panamanian folk music.

Many Mozarabic chants are recorded with no musical notation at all, or just the incipit, suggesting that the psalm tones followed simple and frequently used formulas.

And Mozarabic chant may be seen to make use of three styles: syllabic, neumatic and melismatic, much as in Gregorian chant.

As in Gregorian chant, Mozarabic chant melodies can be broadly grouped into four categories: recitation, syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic.

The monks of Santo Domingo de Silos have been singing Gregorian chant since the 11th century (before that, they used Mozarabic chant).

Randel, Don M. (with Nils Nadeau): Mozarabic Chant, Grove Music Online ed.

(ritus) Toletanus.ru Liturgical books, studies and articles, Mozarabic Calendar, Mozarabic chant (in Russian, Latin etc.).

Mozarabic chant survived the influx of the Visigoths and Moors, but not the Roman-backed prelates newly installed in Spain during the Reconquista.

The group mainly focuses on the performance of music from the Middle Ages, including Beneventan, Old Roman, Gallican, Carolingian and Mozarabic chants.

However, the chant used for this restored Mozarabic rite shows significant influence from Gregorian chant, and does not appear to resemble the Mozarabic chant sung prior to the reconquest.

Mozarabic chant, Byzantine Chant, Armenian chant, Beneventan chant, Ambrosian chant, Gregorian chant and others were various forms of plainsong which were all monophonic.

By the 12th and 13th centuries, Gregorian chant had superseded all the other Western chant traditions, with the exception of the Ambrosian chant in Milan and the Mozarabic chant in a few specially designated Spanish chapels.

Mozarabic chant is largely defined by its role in the liturgy of the Mozarabic rite, which is more closely related to the northern "Gallic" liturgies such as the Gallican rite and the Ambrosian rite than the Roman rite.

Unlike other chant traditions such as Ambrosian chant, Mozarabic chant, and Gallican chant, Old Roman chant and Gregorian chant share essentially the same liturgy and the same texts, and many of their melodies are closely related.