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3 unusual facts about Gregorian Antiphonary


Gregorian Antiphonary

It was reopened by Gerbert in 1774, and by Zaccarin in 1781, the latter of whom at last lit upon the text of Egbert.

At the end of the ninth century John the Deacon (d. c. 882) ascribed to Gregory I the compilation of the books of music used by the schola cantorum established at Rome, by that pope.

Goussainville was the first to express (1685) a doubt as to the authenticity of the Gregorian antiphonary.



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