Well, technically, to be true Gregorian chant, it needs to be male voices only.
Most awesome bad name EVAH.
“Well, technically, to be true Gregorian chant, it needs to be male voices only.”
My thought exactly!
I'm pretty sure that the female orders were permitted to use the chant during their daily masses within the convents. This recording will therefore be something that 99% of Catholics have never heard - or even heard *about*, but which has been going on all along.
I suppose. Maybe they’re WINOs. Women In Name Only. :)
Where did you get that idea?
From the Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Gregorian Chant:
In a stricter sense Gregorian chant means that Roman form of early plain chant as distinguished from the Ambrosian, Gallican, and Mozarabic chants, which were akin to it, but were gradually supplanted by it from the eighth to the eleventh century.
Notice that there is no mention of who can or should sing Gregorian chant. And from Wikipedia:
Singers
Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches, or by women or men of religious orders in their chapels, and is commonly heard in celebrations of the Tridentine [sic] Mass by those Catholics who follow the 1962 Missal.