Jan Swafford
JAN SWAFFORD received degrees from Harvard and the Yale School of Music and is the author of The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and ... [... more]
Random House |
Women In Chant Gregorian Chan
 Perfect for Meditation: I was looking for music to use in my meditation and, since my path is women-spirituality based, I was pleased to come upon Women in Chant. What beautiful music. Although I am not Catholic, it hardly matters in terms of recognizing [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Richard P. McBrien
Richard P. McBrien is Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Gregorian Christmas Chants An
One of the best I've heard: Not technically Gregorian, because of some polyphony. But this is one of the best selections of this kind of music that I've heard. Compare to expensive monastery or convert CDs, and others, and this is one you put on the CD [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Gregorian Chants: The Best of the Benedictine Monks of ...
You can do much better than this CD: The only reason I gave this CD one star is because you cannot rate a CD with zero stars. I would not recommend this CD at all. First, several songs are not really Gregorian Plainchant. They will start out with chant [... more]
CDN$5.99
Amazon CA |
Lost in Meditation: Meditative Gregorian Chants, Vol. 1
This is beautiful: This is the best CD of Gregorian chants that I have ever heard. All of them are in Latin, but if you know a few words you can get the meaning of the entire song. The back of the CD even tells you when the songs are for. The twenty-one [... more]
CDN$5.99
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Gregorian Chant for the Dead
Touching: From the foreword: ''the chants of the liturgia dufunctorum (Liturgy of the dead) originate from two celebrations: the Order of Burial and All Souls' Day on 2nd November. Nothing is known about these chants before the eight and ninth cnturies, [... more]
CDN$6.99
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Duruflé: Requiem; 4 Motets on Gregorian Themes
A delightful requiem: October's gone, November's here - requiem time again and so many to choose between: Mozart, Verdi, Hasse, Perosi, Biber, Schumann ... and for one of the best contemporary requiems, Durufle. This is a hopeful not vengeful requiem [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Gregorian Chant for Good Frida
Let it become a tradition: It has become a tradition for me to listen to this CD around Passion Week. The disc includes Gregorian chants associated with the liturgy of Good Friday. The Passion narrative from the Gospel of John - over a half-hour of [... more]
CDN$6.99
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The Gregorian Missal for Sundays
The Real Vatican II: This is a wonderful book for anyone who has the opportunity to regularly attend the Latin Mass with Gregorian Chant: the Novus Ordo as Vatican II intended it. In addition to the Ordinary of the Mass in English and Latin, it contains [... more]
CDN$35.37
Amazon CA |
Advent Gregorian Chants
Great Chants, Confusing Packaging: Like the previous reviewers, I agree that the music on this album is well done. But like the last reviewer, I find it confusing to discern what I am listening to at times. There are 21 tracks listed on the album, but [... more]
CDN$6.99
Amazon CA |
An Introduction to Gregorian Chant
An Introduction in the Truest Sense of the Word: If a thorough historical description is what you're looking for then this book will provide that more than adequately. Mr. Crocker places the kind of chant known as Gregorian in its native environment as [... more]
CDN$40.13
Amazon CA |
