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So you like Gregorian chant and religious polyphonic music ?
You are at the right site, which will allow you access to many resources :
- You wish for Gregorian chant : you may listen to extracts on line and buy a disk.
- You are interested in the interpretation of the Gregorian chant
: here you will find, not only texts, but also a learning module.
- You like sacred polyphony and seek disks and/or you would like to
know more : check the heading: discovery of the sacred polyphony
world. Entire, unexploited, unknown from the public at large, whole
treasures are awaiting you : extracts for listening, advice on disks,
explanatory texts.
- You are preparing a family event and seek a particular score in
order to make up a liturgical libretto: you will find all you need in
the database of the scores.

- You are a choir director and wish to vary your repertory while
adapting it to the level of your musicians : join the choir directors
forum (to start this September) and download those scores that meet
your needs (available now), and the scores of single voices of over
100 musical pieces. This is only a start, as this site is not intended
to be a personal creation, but a gathering of all valuable resources
in the field of liturgical music. We are spread out all over France and
the world, and each one of us possesses a particular treasure or two,
which will be better employed when shared with the other choir
directors. This sharing of our private resources will create a stock of
exclusively liturgical pieces, free from rights and access limitations,
and available on the Internet.
- In order to prepare a rehearsal of Gregorian chant, it is
indispensable to have an intimate knowledge of the pieces to be
rehearsed. In order to help in this, we present the comments by Dom
Baron and Dom Gajart. Before any rehearsal, reading those texts will
help you give your choristers the style and spirit of the Gregorian
chant and of the liturgy of the day.
I request all actors of the liturgical music world to gather up whatever resources may allow each one of us to find what we seek according to our needs, to add to one another's knowledge, and, finally – and most of all – to embellish the liturgy we celebrate.
Fr Bernard Lorber
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