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3 unusual facts about Beneventan chant


Beneventan chant

During the Lombard occupation of the 7th and 8th centuries, a distinctive liturgical rite and plainchant tradition developed in Benevento.

One of these abbots later became Pope Stephen IX, who in 1058 officially outlawed the Beneventan rite and chant.

Beneventan chant is a liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman Catholic Church, used primarily in the orbit of the southern Italian ecclesiastical centers of Benevento and Montecassino, distinct from Gregorian chant and related to Ambrosian chant.



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