Cantatorium, the Glossary
A cantatorium is a collection of chants for the Mass and solo pieces for the Liturgy of the Word with simple congregational responses of graduals, alleluias, tracts or cantica.[1]
Table of Contents
6 relations: Alleluia, Canticle, Gradual, Mass (liturgy), Saint-Gall Cantatorium, Tract (liturgy).
- Western plainchant
Alleluia
Alleluia is a phrase in Christianity used to give praise to God.
Canticle
In the context of Christian liturgy, a canticle (from the Latin canticulum, a diminutive of canticum, "song") is a psalm-like song with biblical lyrics taken from elsewhere than the Book of Psalms, but included in psalters and books such as the breviary.
Gradual
The gradual (graduale or responsorium graduale) is a certain chant or hymn in liturgical Christian worship.
Mass (liturgy)
Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity.
See Cantatorium and Mass (liturgy)
Saint-Gall Cantatorium
The Saint-Gall Cantatorium is the earliest surviving cantatorium of Gregorian chant. Cantatorium and Saint-Gall Cantatorium are Western plainchant.
See Cantatorium and Saint-Gall Cantatorium
Tract (liturgy)
The tract (Latin: tractus) is part of the proper of the Christian liturgical celebration of the Eucharist, used instead of the Alleluia in Lent or Septuagesima, in a Requiem Mass, and other penitential occasions, when the joyousness of an Alleluia is deemed inappropriate.
See Cantatorium and Tract (liturgy)
See also
Western plainchant
- A Feather on the Breath of God
- Ambrosian chant
- Anglican chant
- Antiphonary
- Antiphonary of Bangor
- Beneventan chant
- Cantatorium
- Canticles of Ecstasy
- Celtic chant
- Choralschola
- Gallican chant
- Gregorian chant
- Mozarabic chant
- Old Roman chant
- Plainsong
- Saint-Gall Cantatorium
- Tonary