The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 626
apitol were put down, about the year 384, the Greekmusicians either returned to the East or abandoned their art. Churchmusic, which alone survived, and which is, in fact, a sort of chant derivedfrom the solemn and monotonous declamation of the sacred hymns of paganism,became the invariable… … 522 MUSIC. art. Pope Sylvester I. (a.d. 330) was so struck by the insufficiency of thenew musical system adopted by the primitive Church that he foundedsinging-schools at Rome, and in several towns where the Catholic religionhad implanted itself. The clerks were thus taught to sing before…
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