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]
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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 Norton Recordings: Gregorian Chant to Beethoven
Even classical music has gone politically correct!: I reviewed this book hoping to find a decent introductory overview of the history and basics of music. At the start, this text looked promising. It featured an accompanying interactive CD set with [... more]
CDN$85.28
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Best of Gregorian Chants 2/Various
Gregorian chants to soothe the mind and soul: This is a high quality, superbly done collection, with richly resonant voices. Artist: Various Artists Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0056775912024 Format: Import Format: Compilation Original Release Date: 1994-09-12 [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Lost in Meditation: Meditative Gregorian Chants, Vol. 2
meditation: This is a great cd for meditation reflection or relaxing. constant peaceful mood throughout Peaceful, inspirational, beautiful... At an unbeatable price: This CD follows up the first volume with more beautiful chants. The recording is high [... more]
CDN$5.99
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The Story of Christian Music: From Gregorian Chant to ...
I too will praise him with a new song: The author, Andrew Wilson-Dickson, teaches music and drama in Cardiff, having taken a doctorate in music composition from York University. Thoroughly grounded in the British musical context and traditions, Wilson- [... more]
CDN$30.00
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Gregorian Chant
It's a complete book on Gregorian Chant: It's one of the most complete books on Gregorian Chant. Now there is an important italian edition, by LIM (Libreria Musicale Italiana), Lucca, 1998. It's translated and brought up-to-date by the italian [... more]
CDN$38.50
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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
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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
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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
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Salve Regina Gregorian Chant
absolutely authentic: Amazing recording. If you go the abbey in Clervaux, Luxemburg (as I did) you can to this day hear live and spontaneous the music of these very monks. Everything about this recording is genuine. If you listen very carefully, you can [... more]
CDN$14.99
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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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