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GregorianChant

Most significant tradition of Western plainchant. It is a monophonic, entirely vocal, sacred from of music developed for use in the Roman Catholic Church. Neumes, an early form of musical notation that showed general direction of a melodic line, were developed to jog the memories of Gregorian Chant singers. There are two major categories of Gregorian chant melody: recitatives and free melodies. Recitatives are largely syllable repeated over a single note, or reciting tone, with infrequent appearance of other pitches, whereas free melodies are freer and consist of a great variety of pitches.

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Parents	ClassicalMusic	Traditional Western art music. Though wide-ranging in sound and style, it is largely characterized by its system of staff notation, and often by its musical complexity.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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