Gregorian Chants.Gregorian Chants Gregorian chant: see plainsong. Gregorian chant Liturgical music of the Roman Catholic church consisting of unaccompanied melody sung in unison to Latin words. Colin R. Shearing shearing In textile manufacturing, the cutting of the raised nap of a pile fabric to a uniform height to enhance appearance. Shearing machines operate much like rotary lawn mowers, and the amount of shearing depends on the desired height of the nap or pile. Mercury Books c/o International Publishers Marketing 22841 Quicksilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. Dr, Dulles, VA 20166 www.internationalpubmarket.com www.mercury-books.com 1904668526 $35.00 1-800-758-3756 Anyone with an interest in the powerful religious music of the traditional Gregorian Chant will relish Colin Shearing's strikingly illustrated, informed and informative history, which pairs a music cd with a history of chant from ancient Egyptian times to its heyday hey·day n. The period of greatest popularity, success, or power; prime. [Perhaps alteration of heyda, exclamation of pleasure, probably alteration of Middle English hey, hey. in the early 9th century. Religious history, social history, and music history all blend together in a fine and detailed survey of the technical forms of Gregorian chant and its evolutionary process. |
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