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The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 598

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pitol 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 raonotonous déclamation of the sacred hymns of paganism,became the invariable… … 52 2 J/US/C. art. Pope Sylvester I. (a.ti. .330) was so strnck by the insufficiency of thenew musical System adopted by tbe primitive Cburcb that he foundedsinging-scbools at Rome, and in several towns where the Catholic religionbad implanted itself. Tbe clerks were tbus taugbt to sing before…

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