Examples of gregorian chant scores

An example of chant

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

In the audio file, the score is sung twice.

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

Manuscript examples

Here are links to several extracts from Gregorian chant books. These files are scanned from quite old books that are now free of copyright. You may copy or re-use them in any way you wish.

Many of them start with a lesson on Gregorian chant notation and its interpretation. This lesson is often in Latin, but it is interesting to see the nuances that are possible.

• Excerpt from a Gradual manuscript. The date of this manuscript is unknown but the style is very ancient and probably dates from the IXth or Xth century. This manuscript is interesting for the non-square notation used in it.
• Excerpt from a Dominican Processionary dated from 1707. A very interesting document as it shows an antique square notation, in which some glyphs differ quite a lot from their later forms, in particular the porrectus.
• Excerpt from a Solesmes Gradual dated 1895.
• Excerpt from a monastic Antiphonary from Solesmes dated 1897.
• Excerpt from a Gradual for the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) order, dated 1910.
• Excerpt from a Dominican Gradual dated 1928.
• Excerpt from the Solesmes Monastic Antiphonale of 1931.
• Excerpt from a Milanese (Ambrosian rite) Antiphonale Missarum dated 1935.