Chorał starorzymski: Nowe horyzonty rozumienia chorału gregoriańskiego i chorałowych repertuarów Kościołów wschodnich
Le chant vieux romain: nouveaux horizons pour la compréhension du chant grégorien et des répertoires des Eglises orientales

Summary/Abstract: The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the discovery of five manuscripts originating from the eleventh and twelfth century containing the Old Roman chant. They were depreciated, however, by the Benedictines of Solesmes Abbey, who at the time were initiating a great reform of the Roman liturgy and chant. Marcel Pérès, an outstanding musicologist and musician, presented the causes and consequences of this rejection. The Old Roman chant appeared to its discoverers as a complete anomaly. Actually, it is testimony of the very essence of the Church chant, being not merely a collection of melodies but the living word, whose life is that of the person who foretells; in addition, it teaches that the repertoire, even if recorded, continues to be an expression of the whole, whose space of existence is predominantly the art of oration.

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