Chapter 8 Additions – Chant Development
Chant  - types and regions
•	 Following the legalisation of Christianity in 313, different forms and flavors of chant began to develop by region. 
•	Roman Spain produced Mozarabic chant, whose title refers to the Moorish rule over Spanish Christians after the invasion of 711
•	From Milan came Ambrosian chant, named in honour of St Ambrose
More chant ‘centers’
•	from Gaul, or what is now France, Gallican chant
•	from Rome, Old Roman and Gregorian
•	from England, the Sarum
•	from the Church in the East, Syrian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopian and Armenian. 
Toward a unified chant?
•	Some of these chants were suppressed by Roman pontiffs striving to establish a unified liturgy and music for the Church. 
•	Others were abandoned when the region resolved to adopt what it considered a superior chant or liturgy. 
•	By these paths Gregorian chant came to dominate liturgical music in the West by the 8th Century. 

Pope Gregory 
•	The one fact almost invariably known about Gregorian chant is that Pope Gregory had something to do with it. 
•	a number of musical popes before him had contributed to the development of chant in Rome, forming chant schools, founding monasteries to preserve and maintain the chant or even composing chant. 

Silver Age of chant
•	The period from 900 to 1300
•	most of the Ordinaries were composed in this period.
•	Creation of hymns and Propers still sung
•	additional music such as tropes, sequences (example: Dies Irae) and conducti
On the end of the Silver Age
•	Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium
•	hymn written by St.Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) for the Feast of Corpus Christi (now called the Solemnity of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ). 
•	also sung on Holy Thursday during the procession from the church to the place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday. 
•	translation: Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory, of His flesh the mystery sing.
Eucharistic hymn example
•	Ave verum corpus
•	short Eucharistic hymn dating from the 14th century and attributed to Pope Innocent VI (d. 1362)
•	During the Middle Ages it was sung at the elevation of the host during the consecration.
•	The hymn's title means "Hail, true body", and is based on a poem deriving from a 14th-century manuscript from the Abbey of Reichenau, Lake Constance.