This school unites everygroup of musical signs or neumes to basic time units, or more simply a regular beat.

Transcription of neums from the manuscript family Sankt-Gallen to modern musical notation 1.

Short introductory note This piece is the Introit, the Entrance song of the Roman Catholic service, of the feast of St.

It is given inclassical Gregorian plainchant notation and in modern staff notation, though many scholars and other people maintain that it is impossibleto notate Gregorian chant in other notation than square notes.

The transcription in modern staff notation may be used for performance bya solo voice, a recorder or other melody instrument.Because midi files sound horrible with this kind of music I did not add it.

I will send it however on request.You may find more transcriptions of Gregorian chant and more extended notes on my website Ottaviano Petrucci, page Gregroianplainchant in modern staff notation (URL: ), and the websites I linked to.

The Latin texts have been added, to enable vocal performance too, and to enable correct phrasing in instrumental performance.

Thetranslations in the separate file have been made word to word from Latin as much as possible.

They do not agree with current bibletranslations which have been based on the source text.The recorder, in particular the alto recorder, seems to be the most appropriate because its breathing technique is closest to vocalperformance.

Other instrumentalists, however, are encouraged to try it, just as solo-singers.

Gregorian chant is the one voiced vocal music in use for the services of the Roman Catholic Church, in the form created since theCarolingian Renaissance, circa 800.

The more complicated pieces like this one were sung by one solo voice.The piece presented here has been transformed into modern 5-line staff notation.

A comma placed above a note called stropha (turning or separate note); it is proposed to perform a glissando from the down secund or a finger vibrato on that note;2.

A diamond above a note called liquescent ( liquid note); the note has to be sung on the ending consonant of the syllable or in instrumental performance strongly slurred to the preceding note;3.

All pointed notes and graces should be performed fluently and not precisely, the short notes should sound mostly as an upbeat or a longappoggiatura.

The time unit is one beat, except the beginning notes of a piece ora sentence, which should be performed like an upbeat.

The slurs and ties represent the groups of neumatic signs.A description of my method of transcription may be found below.

Pieces like this are appropriate as instrumental intermezzi during religious services (not exclusively Roman Catholic) but lend themselvesto concert performances too.

The notation and interpretation has changed strongly in 12 centuries.

Simultaneously with the beginning Early Music MovementBenedictine monks in Solesmes, France, succeeded in deciphering the original notation from the ninth century and in developing a newperformance practice.

Their work has systematically been summarised by Eugne Cardine, Smiologie Grgorienne, Solesmes 1970,English translation by Robert M.

The main point of itis a performance with tone lengths that diverge only in subtle distinctions.

This is the so called semiological opinion of Eugne Cardine andAlberto Turco.

Turco made several recordings with his two scholae on Naxos cds.Another school in the performance practice of Gregorian chant came into existence, the mensuralistic school.

Gregorian Chant Midi Files