Examples of gregorian chant scores

Example of chant

Here is a short example of chant: Alleluia.mp3, and the corresponding score:

In the audio file, the score is sung two times.

The audio file and the score are under Creative Commons license, see the link for more details.

Examples of manuscripts

Here is a set of books of egoriotex.en.html chant. They are scanned from quite ancient books that are now free of rights. You can do anything you want with them.

Most of them start by a lesson on the way of singing .en.egoriotex.en.html chant. This lesson is in .en.egoriotex.en.html, but it is interesting to see the nuances that may appear.

• .en.html. The date is unknown but the style is very ancient and is probably dated from the IXth century. This manuscript is interesting for the non-square notation used in it.
• Processionnaire dominicain dated from 1707. A very interesting document as it shows an ancient square notation, in which some glyphs differ quite a lot, in particular porrectus.
• Gradual from Solesmes dated from 1895.
• Antiphonary from Solesmes dated from 1897.
• Gradual from the order of the Premonstratensian dated of 1910.
• Dominican Gradual dated from 1928.
• Antiphonary from Solesmes dated from 1931.
• Antiphonay from Milan dated from 1935.